Ansar, Lebanon
Ansar or Insar (Arabic أنصار, population 31,970) is a village in the Nabatieh Governorate region of southern Lebanon between Nabatieh and Tyr. During the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s it was the location of a detention camp for suspected Palestinian terrorists and allied Muslim militiamen captured by the Israeli military in Lebanon. Prisoners were catergorised and then either moved to more secure facilities or released. In August 1983, after several escape tunnels were discovered underground, the 5,000 inmates it had held at the time were moved. An Israel Army reservist who had served at Ansar was quoted in the newspaper Maariv claiming the camp was sitting on top of an underground tunnel system.[1]
In 2006, it was bombarded by Israel during escalating conflicts and 5 people were killed[2][3][4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404EFD71438F93BA1575BC0A965948260
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/world/middleeast/07lebanon.html
- ^ http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2006/08/10/israeli-massacre-in-chiyah-ghaziyeh-and-ansar-lebanon-august-7-8-2006/
- ^ http://www.fallingrain.com/world/LE/2/Ansar.html
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E5DE1439F936A35752C1A965948260
Coordinates: 33°23′N 35°21′E / 33.383°N 35.35°E
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