During this conflict, Helen McCue, a nurse practitioner originating from Australia, was employed in the Middle East as a nurse for the World Health Organization. Helen stated she was horrified by the crime and unintended harm to civilians which took place due to the Lebanese civil war, after the Sabra-Shatila massacre. Therefore, in 1982 she resigned from the World Health Organization to volunteer in Beirut refugee camps for the Palestinian Red Crescent.