Sigh- still no facts - ah well - push on.
"Sharon, Eitan, Drori, and military intelligence chief Yehoshua Saguy all knew what was happening by the evening of 17 September, according to their own subsequent testimony, but the massacre was allowed to continue for twelve more hours. Another 200-300 militiamen had already been allowed into Shatila by then, and the IDF also provided bulldozers which the Lebanese Forces hurriedly used to dig mass graves. The militia was finally ordered out at 8 a.m. on 18 September, by which time at least 700 refugees had died by Israeli estimate. The Lebanese military prosecutor later stated that 328 bodies had been recovered and that 991 persons were missing, but the ICRC reported 1,500 dead and an independent international commission subsequently asserted that the final count was 2,750.
Kahan Commission analysis
Yezid Seyigh - Historian Kings College.
Jim Carroll