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13 February 1987

✸Relief trucks shelled at the entrance of Burj al-Barajneh

AttackerAmal Movement➜TargetPLO / Fatah

On 13 February 1987 two supply trucks were shelled as they reached the besieged Burj al-Barajneh camp, killing six and wounding 24, at the height of the famine in which the camp's sheikhs ruled that eating carrion was permitted; Berri ordered an end to the siege four days later.

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