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24 July 1983

✸Escape from Ansar camp

AttackerPalestinians (refugees & camps)➜TargetIsrael / IDF

On 24 July 1983 some 80 detainees escaped from the Ansar camp through a tunnel they had dug under the wire; the camp Israel set up after the invasion held thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese.

▲ Ansar detention camp opened
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