UN General Assembly
1982

air and sea at Palestinian refugee camps, killing unarmed children, women and the elderly, destroying plantations and reducing buildings and houses to rubble. Those forces pursued their crimes in west Beirut and its suburbs, exposing their latent hatred to the extent of cutting off water, medi¬cine, food and electricity from the residents while bombarding the city with heavy artillery and con¬tinuing air and sea attacks for many hours daily for several weeks. Many shells and rockets were fired indiscriminately at residential communities and civilian installations, causing the loss of thousands of human lives; it will not be possible to assess the amount of property destroyed for a long time. 75. The barbaric invading forces did not stop at genocide and brutal acts committed throughout Lebanon. They also organized a massacre in Beirut on 16 September 1982. Over 3,000 unarmed Palestinians were annihilated for no reason except that they were Palestinians. This racist massacre outraged the entire world, including even the traditional friends of the perpetrators. The damage at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps