that is the sabra shatila massacre.ese are was bitterly condemned internationally for direct responsibility. in fact, that is one of the events that set off the huge flow of refugees from eastern europe including my father, among others. replicawas a kind of except far more brutal and vicious. than -- itped more is true he was removed as defense minister, but it wasn't long before he came back. that is one of a number of extremely shocking incidents in his career. >> i want to stay with that for a moment because i want to turn to ellen segal, jewish-american nurse who worked at hospital at the sabra camp at the time of the massacre in september 1982. we interviewed her in 2001 and plated on the 20th anniversary of the killings -- played it on the 20th anniversary the killings. she describes some of what she saw during the massacre. >> it was the 18th, a saturday morning, also the first day of rosh hashanah. we were told to come down to the entrance way to the hospital that the lebanese army was downstairs. well, it wasn

zana, many commentators saying the 1982 invasion of lebanon, the massacres at sabra and shatila will cast a shadow over sharon's legacy. what's been the reaction to his death there? >> well, yes, we are at the scene of that massacre which almost really ended aerial sharon's career. more than 30 years ago, there were bodies in the street, dead bodies, mutilated bodies. today, people are out on the street celebrating, distributing sweets. people really are happy. in 1982, the israeli army inv e invaded lebanon and laid siege to this camp. they were officially pursuing fighters belonging to the palestine liberation organization. at the time, aerial sharon was the defense minister. really, they blame him for allowing an allied lebanese militia to enter the camp and kill women, elderly children, hundreds of palestinians were killed. >> you talk to any palestinian now, some are survivors and they tell you that we are rejohning his death. no one here is mourning his death. some of them also say that his death is not going to change much. he was an official, and he was really implementing an

palestinians killed in the shab ra and shatila massacre in 1982. people are celebrating, distributing sweets once they learnt of the deaths of ariel sharon, the former prime minister. in 1982 he was the defence minister. the israeli army was in beirut, laying seeming to the camp. they were pursuing fighters belonging to the palestine liberation organization, and what happened was a lebanese militia entered the camp and carried out the killings. most of the survivors you talk to, the rejoicing - no one is mourning his death. what they wanted to see was ariel sharon take to an international court, tried for what they see as the crimes committed against them. that never happened. there were numerous attempts. a lot of survivors said ariel sharon's death was not going to change. he was an israeli official, a safe policy that they believe the israeli government will not allow these people to go home. hundreds of thousands wanted them home, in compliance with a resolution. >> son sunday ariel sharon's coffin will be brought to the knesset. thousands of m