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Palestinians remember Sabra, Shatila massacre

There have been rallies and protest marches to mark the eighteenth anniversary of the massacre of Palestinians at the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut.

More than a thousand men, women and children were killed when Christian militiamen went on a three-day killing spree in the camps.

The militia had been allowed in by Israeli soldiers who sealed off the camps after Israel occupied the western sector of the Lebanese capital. Demonstrators in Lebanon and the West Bank also called for the return to their old homes of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians forced to flee to neighbouring countries following the creation of the state of Israel.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service