NBC Nightly News - 1982-09-18

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[0:03] [Music]

[0:10] This is NBC Nightly News reporting from

[0:13] New York. Jessica Savage.

[0:15] >> Good evening. A new word has been added

[0:17] to describe the devastation of West

[0:19] Beirut. Massacre. Hundreds of men,

[0:22] women, and children were shot to death

[0:24] in West Beirut Palestinian refugee

[0:26] camps. at slaughter apparently by

[0:28] Lebanese Christian militia men given

[0:30] control of those camps by the advancing

[0:32] Israeli army. Eyewitnesses called the

[0:34] scene horrifying and the following

[0:36] report by correspondent Ike Semens bears

[0:39] that out. We must advise discretion in

[0:41] viewing.

[0:43] >> The killings apparently began last

[0:45] night. This morning, bodies were found

[0:47] throughout Sabra, the largest

[0:48] Palestinian refugee camp in West Beirut.

[0:51] Some had been machine gunned, others

[0:53] shot in the head. A family was murdered

[0:56] and pushed into a pile of rubble. Small

[0:58] children were gunned down. Refugees

[1:01] blamed the massacre on Christian militia

[1:02] men.

[1:05] >> This woman was rushed to the hospital

[1:07] with severe stab wounds. A friend said

[1:10] the militia men did it.

[1:14] >> This man says militia pulled him from

[1:16] his house early this morning. A mine

[1:18] blew up in the street. Through an

[1:20] interpreter, he says the militia thought

[1:21] he was dead or badly wounded.

[1:25] They left us on the ground like this. No

[1:28] one looked at us.

[1:30] >> At a nearby sports stadium today,

[1:32] several hundred Palestinian men were

[1:33] being held by Israeli soldiers for

[1:35] questioning about terrorist activities

[1:37] here. Frightened women wanted them

[1:39] released for fear they'd fall into the

[1:41] hands of the Christian militia. A

[1:43] soldier said tha

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