The Qaa massacre ( ar, مجزرة القاع) took place on June 28 1978, four villages in Baalback were attacked Ras Baalback, Qaa,

Fakiha Fakiha (also Fakeha or Fekeheh) ( ar, فاكهة) is a village in the Baalbek District, in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Rep ...

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Jdeide Jdeide ( ar, جديده), also spelled Al Judaideh, or the New Fakehe, is a little village located in the northern part of the Baalbek District of Lebanon, on the main road between the city of Baalbek and the city of Hermel. the population of Jdei ...

. The New York Times reported that the victims were believed to have taken part in the killing of 34 people two weeks ago in the northern town of Ehden. The report quotes Camille Chamoun as saying that the attack on the four villages was by “non-Lebanese, non-civilians” and that the gunmen entered the villages with lists of names. Phalangist radio reported forty people were kidnapped and twenty-six of them killed. The dead were reported to be members of the Phalangist Kataeb party and Chamoun’s National Liberal Party.

Background

15 days earlier, Kataeb committed a massacre in Ehden, killing forty people including Tony Frangieh.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308339533_The_Ehden_Massacre_of_1978_in_Lebanon_-_The_Creation_of_a_Resistance_Myth Behind a £35 paywall

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