The Sacramento Bee · Sacramento, California · 21 September 1982
CP-1982-014
A Palestinian woman grieves over the bodies of her relatives in the Sabra refugee camp of West Beirut. In background, a Red Cross worker sprays disinfectant.
Transcribed from the clipping
“A Palestinian woman grieves over the bodies of her relatives in the Sabra refugee camp of West Beirut. In background, a Red Cross worker sprays disinfectant.” UPI photo.
Context added by this archive
Twelve rows of bodies under blankets, a Red Cross worker with a sprayer, and a woman kneeling beside one of them. The caption gives her a nationality and a relationship and no name. The verb for what was done to the people in the picture does not appear.
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"A Palestinian woman grieves over the bodies of her relatives in the Sabra refugee camp of West Beirut. In background, a Red Cross worker sprays disinfectant.," The Sacramento Bee, 21 September 1982. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1982-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1982-014
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