The Bus Massacre, also known as the ‘Ain el-Rammaneh incident’ (or Massacre), was the collective name given to a short series of armed clashes involving Lebanese Christian and Palestinian elements in the streets of central Beirut, which is commonly presented as the spark that set off the Lebanese Civil War in the mid-1970s.
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