""They provided illumination: YOU are stating it was to allow killing- Please provide some factual basis. Why could it not have been providing light to allow the refugees to move around and get away from the LEBANESE who where attacking them?""

OH PUHLEASE! Make up your mind. If they didn't know about the killing why would they need to do that?

You get more off the plot with every post.

""They turned them back, but can you show that they knew it was to be killed? What percentage of those in the camp were killed, and how does that compare with other inter -Arab fighting, such as between Hamas and the PA?""

What did you just suggest as a reason for lighting up the sky?

The percentage is irrelevant and so are comparisons. IT WAS A MASSACRE!   DUH?

"stood by and watched the massacre take place,

""How could they have seen what was going on IN the camp when they remained outside?""

Well, they lit the whole scene lke a football stadium, so whether it was for your reason, or ours, they must have known that the Lebanese were going berserk. What did they think the Phalangists were doing, playing chess?

"""bury the 'evidence' with their clearly marked bulldozers ...."

They gave the use of ONE bulldozer to the militia to help it remove the Palestinian fighters from the camp.""

But they didn't find Palestinian fighters, who had already left. But the people they DID find weren't removed by that dozer. They are still there, under the stadium hastily erected to conceal their mass grave.

You asked what proportion died! Easy answer, ask the bulldozer driver.

Don T.