Hawzah News Agency- The movement stressed that the massacre, committed in September, 1982, when Lebanese and Palestinian civilians were killed in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, will never be erased from memory. It described the crime as “a genocidal act, a shameful stain on the forehead of a silent world, and an open wound in the body of the nation.”
The statement recalled that the blood of Palestinians and Lebanese was shed together as the Zionist regime, with the help of sectarian militias and under international cover, carried out one of the most horrific massacres in modern history.
The movement criticized the failure of Lebanese and international judicial bodies to hold the perpetrators accountable, noting that no serious investigation or trial has been conducted in more than four decades. It added that, like other crimes of the Zionist regime, the massacre has been relegated to “political oblivion” in a world where the blood of Palestinians and Lebanese is treated as mere statistics.
Drawing a parallel to current events, the Ummah Movement said the ongoing war on Gaza represents “a new and more brutal tragedy,” marked by genocide, famine and siege, and reflecting the same international complicity and Arab inaction seen in 1982.
The movement stressed that silence over today’s crimes, like silence over past massacres, amounts to complicity. It called on Arab and Islamic nations to strengthen their ranks, direct their focus towards occupied Palestine, and transform the memory of the martyrs into a united resistance project that confronts occupation not only through words but also through action.
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