Karantina massacre

The Karantina massacre took place on 18 January 1976, early in the Lebanese Civil War. La Quarantine, known in Arabic as "Karantina", was a Muslim-inhabited district in mostly Christian East Beirut controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Lebanese National Movement, and inhabited by Palestinians, Kurds, Armenians, Syrians, and Lebanese Muslims. The fighting and subsequent killings also involved an old Quarantine area near the port and nearby "Maslakh" quarter.
Karantina was overrun by militias of the right-wing and mostly Christian Lebanese Front, primarily the Kataeb Regulatory Forces militia of the Kataeb Party, resulting in the deaths of approximately 600–1,500 people. According to then-Washington Post-correspondent Jonathan Randal, "Many Muslim men and boys were rounded up and separated from the women and children and massacred, while many of the women and young girls were violently raped and murdered."
The Damour massacre two days later was a reprisal for the Karantina massacre.
After the Lebanese Front militias took control of the Karantina district, the Tel al-Zaatar refugee camp was besieged for five months, ending in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre.