Karantina massacre
The Karantina massacre took place on January 18, 1976, early in the Lebanese Civil War. Karantina was a predominantly Palestinian Muslim slum district in mostly Christian East Beirut, controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and inhabited by Kurds, Syrians, Armenians, and Palestinians. The fighting and subsequent killings also involved an old quarantine area near the port and nearby Maslakh quarter.
Karantina was overrun by militias of the right-wing and mostly Christian Lebanese Front, specifically the Kataeb Party, resulting in the deaths of approximately 1,500 people, mostly Muslims. After Kataeb Regulatory Forces, Guardians of the Cedars, NLP Tiger militia and Lebanese Youth Movement forces took control of the Karantina district on 18 January 1976, Tel al-Zaatar was placed under siege, leading to the Tel al-Zaatar massacre.
The Damour massacre was a reprisal for the Karantina massacre.Footnotes
