History Today | The Strongest Typhoon "Moranti" Beirut Refugee Camp Massacre

First, the strongest typhoon "Moranti" landed in Fujian

September 15, 2016, the strongest typhoon "Meranti" landed in Fujian.

The strongest typhoon "Moranti" landed in Xiamen, uprooted trees

Submerged vehicles and streets

High-rise destroyed by strong winds

Typhoon "Moranti" No. 14 of 2016 caused serious disaster to Fujian Province. Fujian Provincial Flood Control Office, according to the latest bulletin, as of 16 May 21, the province, the death tolls of 18, missing 11 people.

No. 14 typhoon “Molandi” is the strongest typhoon that landed on China’s mainland since the beginning of this year, and the strongest typhoon that landed in southern Anhui since 1949. It reached a strength of 17 at its peak, and its atmospheric pressure was as low as 883 hpa. Weather records.

"Meranti" landed in the coastal Xiamen in September 2016 early morning on the 15th, the harm caused mainly in Fujian Province, the most concentrated population of the southern region, leading to the city flooded, houses collapsed, damaged infrastructure, water, electricity and communications disruption, especially It is the basic power supply for Xiamen's entire city, and it is completely out of service. Quanzhou and Zhangzhou have blackouts in large areas and the economic losses are extremely serious.

According to preliminary statistics, as of 16 May 21, nine districts and cities in Fujian province and Pingtan comprehensive experimental zone, 86 counties (cities, districts) 179.58 million people were affected, emergency transfer 65.55 million; 86.7 one thousand hectares of crops affected, disaster 40 thousand hectares of crops 10 one thousand hectares; pour damaged houses 18323; Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou industrial enterprise-wide downtime; damaged dikes 54.05 kilometers, damaged water conservancy facilities 1087 (office).

Due to the widespread disaster, 18 people were killed in the disaster and 11 were missing . Among them, 9 were seriously injured and 8 were missing .

2. Beirut Refugee Camp Massacre

September 15, 1982, Sabra and Shatila massacre.

Scary scene of Sabra and Shatila

In June 1982, Israel launched a large-scale armed invasion of Lebanon, occupying a third of the Lebanese territory, heavily besieged Beirut. More than 1,000 Palestinian refugees here on September 15 was the bloody massacre of Israeli aggression and the Christian militia in Lebanon. This atrocity has provoked public anger in the world. After the incident, September 20, the United States, France, Italy and the three governments in accordance with the requirements of the Lebanese government, the multinational force restructuring, October 2 stationed in Beirut and its suburbs.

After the Beirut massacre:

Beirut City Map

At 16:10 on September 14th, 1982, the Lebanese capital Beirut, an important meeting is being held within the Phalange headquarters building. Suddenly, with a loud bang, a 200 kg bomb that had been placed in advance exploded. Suddenly, the smoke-filled conference room, Flesh, host of the meeting down in a pool of blood - young Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel was killed.

The first result of this incident was that Israel used this as an excuse to enter Beirut. This is what Israel is dreaming about because it is looking for opportunities to slaughter Palestinians living in the camps in Beirut. As early as three months ago, Israel decided to use the hands of extremists of the Lebanese right-wing militias to massacre Palestinian civilians on the pretext that after the Palestine Liberation Organization withdrew from Beirut in August , it still left about 2,000 guerrilla fighters. "Restoring and maintaining Beirut's order" is to "acquire the remaining Palestinian guerrillas." Now, the death of Bashir Gemayel is a good opportunity to realize this bloody plan. However, Israelis are still afraid of further condemnation by the world public opinion. Therefore, they themselves made as few appearances as possible in this massacre.

At 2:00 on September 15, Israeli forces quickly moved into West Beirut, the Beirut Sabra and Chatila southwest surrounded the two Palestinian refugee camps. At this time, thousands of Palestinian civilians are asleep. These kind people did not anticipate that people are in dreams and disasters. A bloody massacre is quietly rushing toward them.

September 15 afternoon, the Lebanese right-wing extremists began a military transport, a truck from the southern tip of east Beirut International Airport and headed west Beirut. Around the same time, another faction split by the Christian Long Gun Party and the soldiers of Major Hadad, allied with Israel, also marched toward the airport along the path controlled by Israel. A command post called the “Operation Room” was set up in the airport. An Israeli liaison officer served as an assistant in the “Operation Room”. Throughout the afternoon, Israeli troops outside the refugee camps bombarded the camp with intensive gunfire. The southern end of Shatila’s camp was destroyed. This is where the executioners are scheduled to enter the camp. 17:00, a team of about 1,200 people gathered at the golf course near Beirut International Airport. The team advances along pre-painted road signs, one at a time every 50 yards . The road signs lead to a new assembly site in front of the refugee camp: a crossroads where the Kuwaiti embassy is located.

At this time, Israel deployed most of its troops to the west of the Shatila refugee camp. They laid at least 12 tanks and armored personnel carriers along Chamonix Street . They also set up a command post on the roof of a seven-story building of the bombed UN organization, where soldiers with binoculars are stationed. An observation station was set up on a nearby high-rise building. The two camps overlook the entire camp. Before the start of the operation, one can see that the Israeli commander is in consultation with the right-wing extremists. Blood-wash camp plans are already in place.

At about 6 o'clock the Israeli army put a group of right-wingers from the South Gate into the camp and the massacre began. At this time, Israel began to support artillery. When night fell, Israel entered and began firing flares. Israeli aircraft also circled their heads and cast more flares to illuminate the massacre. Around 6:30, gunfire instead of guns, suggesting that Palestinian innocent civilians are being killed one by one. Around 7 o’clock, a group of Palestinians flocked to the Gaza Hospital between two refugee camps to seek refuge. Many screaming Palestinian women ran out of refugee camps to call for help for their children and husbands, but Israeli soldiers ignored them.

The slaughter continued overnight. Two refugee camps became massacre, and the bodies of thousands of men, women and children were decimated. Some fell to the streets and some were killed at home. Some men were tied up, dragged together and dragged on trucks. Some youth were cut off from the genitals, some were cut off, some were cut off, some were cut off, and some were tight. Tightly grabbed his baby and died. A few days later, when the International Red Cross staff cleared the massacre site, people saw one after another corpse lifted out of the rubble. The victims faced an extremely painful face that suddenly faced death. It was shocking. Fingers. A group of Palestinians burst into tears around a pile of corpses. From time to time, there were screams from the crowd, and people were brutally murdered and miserable. Some survivors later recalled: “ The night of the 16th was a hell here, the sky was never dark, the gunfire never stopped, and people kept screaming.”

On the morning of September 17 , the news of the massacre spread everywhere. The refugee camp was full of terror. Flocks of refugees left Gaza Hospital and fled north. About 40 patients also fled with these refugees. At this time, the massacre seemed to have temporarily eased, but the murderers' attention was again diverted to Aka Hospital, another hospital. Four doctors in this hospital left the hospital with a white flag, but one bomb was thrown on the face and three doctors were killed on the spot. After a while, a team of executioners came to the hospital. They gang raped a 19 -year-old Palestinian nurse and then killed her. Another two Palestinian doctor were out of the hospital and disappeared. Judging from the traces left by the refugees on the ground, some of the soldiers were leaning against the wall and savoring snacks and smoking cigarettes while killing people. Some food boxes were left on the ground.

On the afternoon of the 17th , the murderers began to cover up crimes. Around 3 o'clock, a bulldozer appeared on the street of Shatila. The bulldozer's shovel was full of corpses. At the entrance to the Shatila Refugee camp, hurriedly piled up 90 bodies, with crushed bricks and bricks. Some Palestinian civilians were strangled in the house while bulldozers levelled the house. At the same time, a number of bulldozers erupted from the Sabra refugee camp. A large graves have been dug outside the western wall of the camp and the bodies of the victims have been buried in the pits. It is only about 100 meters from the Israeli command post .

September 18 morning, at the same time cover up the crimes, massacres still continued and continued until about 10:30, when a group of Israeli soldiers had just entered the refugee camp, people can no longer have this time of the massacre. The death toll from the massacre that lasted for a full 40 hours has not been definitively counted yet. Some say 1,000 , some say 1,500 , and others say thousands.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.