Remembering Sabra and Shatila, 42 years on: testimonies.
French writer Jean Genet, one of the first to enter Shatila after the massacre said, "I have spent four hours in Shatila, and what remains in my memory are around forty bodies, all of which—and I emphasize all—have likely been tortured, amidst the ecstasy of the torturers, their songs, their laughter, and amidst the smell of gunpowder. The smell of the corpses was not coming out of a house or from a mangled body; rather, it seemed to me that my body and my being were the ones emitting that smell."

Picture 2 shows Mohammed Said Wihibeh with photos of his martyred family members. He stated, "I'll tell you, they took a boy, just a little boy, and they tore him in half. They literally tore him in half by the legs. And we screamed, 'why?!' They said he would only grow up to be a terrorist! My grandson, what did he do to get killed? First of all, they killed his mother—they hadn't seem him, he was asleep in his cot. He started to cry; of course he did, he wanted his mother. They took him, and they killed him."

Picture 3 shows Lebanese martyr Ilham Dhaher Al-Miqdad, 23 years old, of Shatila camp. She was martyred with her ID in her hand.

Pictures 4 and 5 show Milana Boutros, a Lebanese witness to the massacre, punished for marrying a Palestinian man: she was kept alive to "teach her a lesson" as the Phalangists murdered her entire family.

The second video shows the touching moment that the Palestinian poet Rehab Kanaan, who lost 54 of her family members as martyrs of the Sabra and Shatila massacres, met her daughter on television for the first time in years after believing her to be martyred. The video needs no subtitles, as the raw emotions transcend all languages.

1. "The martyrs of Sabra and Shatila are our leaders...
And indeed, it is a revolution until victory."

2. A pregnant woman standing on rubble holds her martyred husband's military uniform. The background reads "Sabra," and the woman says, "patience" ("sabran" in Arabic) in front of a cowering zionist solider.

3. The good man waves a newspaper with the headline "The memory of the Sabra and Shatila massacre" in front of the sleeping Arab elite wearing a headband that reads "DO NOT DISTURB." Handala kicks the man awake.

4. Handala assists his injured friend on their journey from the rubble of Sabra and Shatila to the cemetery of martyrs. An oil barrel holds a newspaper that reads, "Happy Eid!!"

5. A young orphan consoles a young girl with a kuffiyeh while offering flowers at the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila, joined by Handala on top of the mass graves.

6. Rain falls on the land. Blood falls on Sabra and Shatila. Handala watches.

7. The sunflower turns away from the sun. Its petals fall as tears to water the graves in the cemetery of martyrs of Sabra and Shatila.

8. Hungry refugees of Sabra and Shatila are fed by birds with stones in their mouths.

9. Handala cloaks with a kuffiyeh a bound woman, shot in the back, who has been martyred. Female victims of the massacre were subjected to horrific abuses; Handala restores dignity to the dead with his kuffiyeh.

10. Shatila camp.

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