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Beirut at war
A Palestinian fighter overlooks the Luna Park amuse-
ment complex in Beirut during the First Lebanon War
in summer 1982. The war had begun on 6 June when
Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon to attack the
Palestine Liberation Organization and other anti-
Israeli militia occupying the area. The PLO was forced
to abandon Lebanon, and Israeli forces eventually
withdrew. Following the invasion, a vicious civil war
between Christian and Muslim militia flared up again
before a fragile peace was restored eight years later.