Qualla: 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:31 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. A family was having a child baptized at the Church of Notre Dame de la Delivrance in the Maronite neighborhood of Ain el-Rammaneh on the morning of April 13, 1975. Outside, Phalangist militiamen directed traffic away from the ceremony. A vehicle carrying armed PLO guerrillas, firing rifles into the air in a customary display, refused to be diverted. In the scuffle that followed, the Phalangists shot the Palestinian driver. By nightfall, Lebanon had begun a civil war that would last fifteen years and kill 60,000 people in its first phase alone.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/sy12-1975-beirut-bus-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: A Baptism Interrupted https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The morning violence escalated rapidly. At 10:30 a.m., as the baptism congregation gathered outside the church, two civilian cars plastered with Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine posters pulled up and opened fire. Four people died in the drive-by shooting, including J...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/sy12-1975-beirut-bus-massacre-a-baptism-interrupted.mp3 0:06 2 full 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: The Bus Through Ain el-Rammaneh https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Shortly after midday, a bus carrying Palestinian Arab Liberation Front supporters and Lebanese sympathizers passed through Ain el-Rammaneh on its way to the Sabra refugee camp. The passengers were returning from a political rally at Tel el-Zaatar. Believing the church attack had ...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/sy12-1975-beirut-bus-massacre-the-bus-through-ain-el-rammaneh.mp3 0:06 3 full 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: Three Days, Three Hundred Dead https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The bus massacre detonated sectarian tensions that had been building for years. Heavy fighting erupted across Beirut between Phalangist militia and Palestinian guerrillas allied with the leftist Lebanese National Movement. Over 300 people died in the first three days. Prime Minis...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/sy12-1975-beirut-bus-massacre-three-days-three-hundred-dead.mp3 0:06 4 full 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: Contested Truths https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. Decades of debate have failed to establish a definitive account of April 13. The Phalangists insisted the bus carried armed ALF reinforcements and that the ambush was a shootout, not a massacre. Most Palestinian accounts described the passengers as civilian families attacked with...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/y/1/2/1975-beirut-bus-massacre-wp/sy12-1975-beirut-bus-massacre-contested-truths.mp3 0:06 5 full 1975 Beirut Bus Massacre: The Bus as Artifact https://qualla.com/1975-beirut-bus-massacre/ Photo credit Jimmypapas, CC BY-SA 4.0. The actual bus was recovered and first publicly exhibited in mid-2011, decades after the event. For the 50th anniversary of the civil war's outbreak in 2025, it was displayed at the Nabu Museum -- a physical artifact of the moment Lebanon fractured. The bus is a relic of an event...

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