Sabra and Shatila massacres anniversary in Lebanon

Lebanese national parties and organizations on Sunday said that Sabra and Shatila massacres perpetrated by Israeli occupation troops in 1982 represents the worst heinous crimes against Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.

The parties, following a meeting at Amal Movement building in the Lebanese southern city of Tyre, denounced in a statement "foreign attempts to acquit from his crime the terrorist Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon," who ordered his troops to carry out the massacres.

The statement underlined the "necessity of resistance, coexistence and the strong relations with sisterly Syria."

Israeli occupation troops in September 1982 surrounded Sabra and Shatila refugee camps near Lebanese capital of Beirut, raided and shelled innocent civilians, killing and wounding thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese people.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Labor Minister, Tarrad Hamade, stressed the importance of continuing resistance till liberating all occupied Lebanese territories in Shabaa Farms and the release of all detainees in Israeli prisons.

Hamade, in a speech at Jbeil region, northeast of Beirut, reiterated that the Lebanese reject to politicize the investigation into former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri assassination.