War of the Camps

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War of the Camps
Part of the Lebanese Civil War
Date 19 May 1985 – July 1988 Location Beirut and Southern Lebanon Result Indecisive/Amal victory ‘’over the camps’’
Belligerents
PLO Fatah Movement DFLP Palestinian Liberation Front Al-Mourabitoun  Hezbollah Harakt Tawahid al-Islami Sixth of February Movement Communist Action Organization in Lebanon PDK-L SSNP (Anti-Syrian government factions) Progressive Socialist Party (1987) Lebanese Communist Party (1987) Supported by: Iraq Iran	Amal Movement SSNP (Pro-Syrian government factions)  Syria Syrian Armed Forces Lebanese Armed Forces 6th Infantry Brigade 8th Infantry Brigade PNSF Fatah al-Intifada As-Sa'iqa PFLP-GC PLA Supported by: Libya
Commanders and leaders
Yasser Arafat Abu Abbas (Muhammad Zaidan) Nayef Hawatmeh Ibrahim Kulaylat Mohsen Ibrahim Inaam Raad Abbas al-Musawi George Hawi (1987-1988) Walid Jumblatt (1987-1988)	Nabih Berri Hafez al-Assad Mustafa Tlass Ghazi Kanaan Pres. Amine Gemayel General Michel Aoun Ahmed Jibril Abu Musa (Col. Said Muragha) Abu Khalid al-Amleh
Casualties and losses
3,781 dead and 6,787 injured 3,100+ Palestinians killed by Amal Movement , 3,000+ Palestinians killed by other Palestinians.[citation needed]

The War of the Camps (Arabic: حرب المخيمات, romanized: 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]

Sometimes described as being Muslim versus Christian, the Lebanese Civil War was actually a multifaceted conflict in which there was nearly as much inter-factional violence between members of the same religion as there was violence between Muslims and Christians.^[2] In that respect, the conflict can be compared to the fighting between the Lebanese Forces (LF), a primarily Christian Maronite militia led by Samir Geagea, and Michel Aoun's Christian-controlled faction of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).