Israel Commander in Beirut Gets U.S. Post
A general criticized for failing to alert his superiors to the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camp massacres was appointed Israel’s military attache to the United States, the military said Friday.
Maj. Gen. Amos Yaron, 46, last held an official military post as head of the army’s manpower division two years ago. He has been on “study leave” since then, the army said.
Yaron led the Israel Defense Forces in Beirut at the time of Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. His unit was posted near the Palestinian refugee camps during the massacres.
Lebanese Christian Falangist gunmen entered the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps in mid-September, 1982, and killed more than 700 people.
Israeli forces patrolling around the two camps in Muslim West Beirut were accused of ignoring evidence of the massacres.
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