It documents the events that led to the Tel al-Zaatar massacre in 1976, at the height of the Lebanese Civil War, the Two-Year War, attempting to historicize the massacre with its political, military, and humanitarian dimensions, and highlighting 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 it covers. It presents the humanitarian situation of 30,000 people in the camp and nearby neighborhoods, in Jisr al-Pasha, Nabaa, and Karantina, during the supply siege, and tracks the problems of water shortages, power outages, weak medical services, incidents of civilian killings in shelters, and even the difficulty of finding burial sites for the victims.
