georgephillip
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"Crawl and die
"At one point, the fighters separated the group, putting the women to one side and the remaining men on the other.
"'They would pick on the men at random and make them crawl on the floor. If they thought they crawled well, they assumed it was due to some sort of military training, so they took them behind a sand bank and killed them.'
"The Lebanese fighters took those they had not killed and forced them to march over the dead bodies scattered on the streets toward the large sports stadium on the outskirts of the camp.
"'We were made to walk over the dead bodies, and among cluster bombs,' Balqis said. 'At one point I passed a tank, where the body of a baby only a few days old was stuck to the wheel.'
"At the stadium, the command changed from Lebanese to Israeli.
"'It was here the Israelis took my brother Salah, who was 30-years-old, for interrogation,' she said.
"Inside the stadium the men were interrogated, tortured, and killed. Few were able to leave alive. The Israelis threatened them, saying, 'If you don't cooperate with us, we will hand you over to the Phalangists.'"
Jews to the rescue, soak it up, Hossie.
Survivors recount Sabra-Shatila massacre - Features - Al Jazeera English
"At one point, the fighters separated the group, putting the women to one side and the remaining men on the other.
"'They would pick on the men at random and make them crawl on the floor. If they thought they crawled well, they assumed it was due to some sort of military training, so they took them behind a sand bank and killed them.'
"The Lebanese fighters took those they had not killed and forced them to march over the dead bodies scattered on the streets toward the large sports stadium on the outskirts of the camp.
"'We were made to walk over the dead bodies, and among cluster bombs,' Balqis said. 'At one point I passed a tank, where the body of a baby only a few days old was stuck to the wheel.'
"At the stadium, the command changed from Lebanese to Israeli.
"'It was here the Israelis took my brother Salah, who was 30-years-old, for interrogation,' she said.
"Inside the stadium the men were interrogated, tortured, and killed. Few were able to leave alive. The Israelis threatened them, saying, 'If you don't cooperate with us, we will hand you over to the Phalangists.'"
Jews to the rescue, soak it up, Hossie.
Survivors recount Sabra-Shatila massacre - Features - Al Jazeera English