Following an earlier shooting near a church, Kataeb gunmen attacked a bus carrying Palestinian and Lebanese passengers. Accounts differ on passenger numbers and the day’s preceding incidents. Result: escalating clashes between Lebanese militias and Palestinian organisations; impact: the beginning of a prolonged civil war, not simply an Israel–Palestine conflict.
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Following an earlier shooting near a church, Kataeb gunmen attacked a bus carrying Palestinian and Lebanese passengers. Accounts differ on passenger numbers and the day’s preceding incidents. Result: escalating clashes between Lebanese militias and Palestinian organisations; impact: the beginning of a prolonged civil war, not simply an Israel–Palestine conflict.
Ain al-Rummaneh bus killings accelerate Lebanese civil war occurred in 1975.
Following an earlier shooting near a church, Kataeb gunmen attacked a bus carrying Palestinian and Lebanese passengers. Accounts differ on passenger numbers and the day’s preceding incidents. Result: escalating clashes between Lebanese militias and Palestinian organisations; impact: the beginning of a prolonged civil war, not simply an Israel–Palestine conflict.