The book documents the events that led to the Tel al-Zaatar massacre in August 1976, at the height of the Lebanese civil war, the two-year war, attempting to chronicle the massacre in its political, military and humanitarian dimensions, and shedding light on the legal, social and economic contexts of Palestinian refugees in refugee camps in Lebanon. It provides a historical background on Syrian-Lebanese-Palestinian relations and their transformations during the period covered. The book presents the humanitarian situation of 30,000 people in the camp and the neighborhoods near it, in Jisr al-Basha, al-Nabaa and al-Karantina, during the period of the food blockade, and traces the problems of water shortages, power outages, poor medical services, incidents of killing civilians in shelters, and even the difficulty of finding burial places for the victims.
