Today in History: September 16, massacre in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2025. There are 106 days left in the year.

On Sept. 16, 1982, the massacre of more than 1,300 Palestinian men, women and children at the hands of Israeli-allied Christian Phalange militiamen began in west Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

In 1810, Catholic priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called on his parishioners to join him in a rebellion against Spanish rule, marking the beginning of the Mexican War of Independence.

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