Karantina massacre
The Karantina massacre took place on January 18, 1976, early in the Lebanese Civil War. Karantina was a predominantly Palestinian Muslim slum district in mostly Christian East Beirut, controlled by forces of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and inhabited by Kurds, Syrians, Armenians, and Palestinians. The fighting and subsequent killings also involved an old quarantine area near the port and nearby Maslakh quarter.