(تابع) تقارير الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة المقدمة إلى مجلس الأمن والخاصة بلبنان واليونيفل.
المصدر: غسان تويني، "1982 عام الاجتياح "، دار النهار، بيروت، ط 1، 1998، ص 347 - 371.

positions as called for by the Habib plan. This did not happen. When the IDF found out, on the morning of 18 September, they surrounded the camps to protect the population. "

         A second message received later from Ambassador Blum was as follows:
         "An arrangement has been reached between the Israeli Defense Forces and the Lebanese Armed Forces for the Lebanese Armed Forces to enter the three camps, that is Fakhani, Sabra and Shatila tomorrow morning (Sunday) at 10.00 local time."

         5. On 18 September, United Nations observers of the Observer Group Beirut (OGB) reported as follows:
         (a) During the day on 17 September, fighting in the Sabra Camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut was in progress and the presence of Kataeb units (which are the military branch of the Phalanges Party) was observed at Bir Hassan, in the hospital and the airport areas in the vicinity of Sabra Camp. Western Beirut was reported under IDF control around 15.00 hours GMT on 17 September. with the exception of the Sabra Camp area.
         (b) From 16.00 to 18.30 hours GMT on 17 September, very sporadic explosions were heard at an undetermined distance north-west of Yarze, where the OGB office is temporarily located. Four minutes before midnight GMT, flares were seen over the Sabra area.
         (c) In the morning of 18 September, all of West Beirut was under IDF control. The presence of Kataeb units was again observed in Bir Hassan in the vicinity of Sabra Camp, as well as an estimated at least 1.000 Kataeb soldiers with tanks and vehicles in the airport area.
         (d) Two teams of OGB observers reached the Sabra Camp at 0830 hours GMT and found many clusters of bodies of men, women and children in civilian clothes who appeared to have been massacred in groups of ten or twenty. The Sabra Camp is dominated by two IDF positions situated 200 and 500 meters respectively west of the Camp. According to information received from the Lebanese Army, the units seen in the Bir Hassan, Sabra and airport areas were in fact Kataeb units mixed with Lebanese de facto forces coming from southern Lebanon.
         (e) As of 18.00 hours GMT on 18 September, IDF was deployed in and around Beirut, controlling the city with mechanized troops on the main axes and road junctions as well as with infantry patrols. No IDF withdrawals had been observed south or west of the approximate line of separation of forces indicated in the report of 15 September (S/15382/Add.1,para.4). The deployment of Lebanese Army and internal security units also remained unchanged with some minor adjustments. Lebanese Forces and Kataeb Forces were manning checkpoints and were controlling traffic east and south of the approximate line of separation. However, the forces that had been observed in the airport area during the morning were no longer there at 16.00 hours GMT. No local armed elements (LNM, Amal, Mourabitoun) were observed west or north or the approximate line of separation of forces.
         (f) During the period under review, OGB observers continued to enjoy substantial freedom of movement. Their strength stood unchanged at ten.

         6. Upon receiving the first word of the events that had occurred during the night. I directed the United Nations spokesman to issue the following statement on my behalf: "The Secretary-General has heard with shock and horror the reports of the killing of civilians in West Beirut. He once again calls urgently for an end to the violence".

         7. I subsequently received a visit by the Permanent Representatives of France. Italy and the United States, who handed to me a statement urging the immediate dispatch of United Nations observers to the sites of the greatest human suffering and

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