War of the Camps

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War of the Camps
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
Date May 1985 – July 1988 Location Beirut and Southern Lebanon Result Inconclusive/Amal Movement Pyrrhic Victory
Belligerents
PLO Fatah DFLP Palestinian Liberation Front Supported by: Al-Mourabitoun  Hezbollah CAOL SSNP-L (Anti-Syrian government faction) PSP (1987) LCP (1987)	Amal Movement Lebanese Resistance Regiments SSNP-L (Pro-Syrian government faction) PNSF PFLP-GC Fatah al-Intifada As-Sa'iqa Supported by: Syria Syrian Army Lebanese Army 6th Infantry Brigade 8th Infantry Brigade
Commanders and leaders
Yasser Arafat Abu Abbas Nayef Hawatmeh Ibrahim Kulaylat Abbas al-Musawi Mohsen Ibrahim Inaam Raad Walid Jumblatt George Hawi	Nabih Berri Isaam al-Mahayri Ahmed Jibril Abu Musa Hafez al-Assad Ghazi Kanaan Michel Aoun
Casualties and losses
Between 4,500 and 6,500 dead

The War of the Camps (Arabic: حرب المعسكرات|Harb al-Mukhayimat), was a subconflict within the 1984–1990 phase of the Lebanese Civil War, in which the Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut were besieged by the Shia Amal militia.^[1]

The War of the Camps was a struggle for control over West Beirut and was considered an extension of the political struggle between Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It took place between May 1985 and July 1988.