Namun begitu, Israel telah memberikan perakuan secara bertulis bahawa ia akan melindungi orang awam Palestine, kerana itu telah menjadi tanggungjawabnya di bawah undang-undang antarabangsa sebagai kuasa penakluk.
FollowingBerikutan dengan pilihan raya Sharon's [[2001]] electionuntuk to the post ofjawatan [[Prime MinisterPerdana ofMenteri Israel]], asatu lawsuitsaman wastelah fileddikemukakan indi Belgium regardingberkenaan hisperanannya allegeddalam roleperistiwa in causing in thepenyembelihan Sabra anddan Shatila massacres. TheMahkamah BelgianAgung SupremeBelgium Courtmemutuskan ruled onpada [[12 February 12]], [[2003]], thatbahawa Sharon (anddan othersyang lain, amongantaranya whomadalah Yaron) canboleh bedisabitkan indicteddi underbawah thistuduhan accusationini. CriticsPengkritik ofsaman thisini lawsuitmenuduh claimbahawa thatia itdi waslakukan madeuntuk fortujuan political reasonspolitik. Israel reactedbertindak withbalas furordengan tobising the"furor" rulingterhadap andkeputusan questionedini thedan jurisdictionmempersoalkan ofhak Belgianmahkamah courtsBelgium tountum hearmembicarakan thekes caseini, althoughwalaupun Israelirakyat citizensIsrael hadyang broughtmembawa akes (unrelatedtidak berkenaan) casepada forwardmahkamahyang tosama the very same courts against the PalestiniansterhadapPalestin. Ramai Manyyang findmendapati themamlumat informationdalam insaman theitu lawsuitmemeranjatkan "disturbing". Sebahagiannya It is partly based on a partberasaskan ofpada themaklumat "Kahan commission" whichyang wastidak neverpernah madedibebaskan publickepada umum (thebahagian sealedlapuran portionyang of the reportdisita) buttetapi wasdiberikan madekepada available topendakwa Belgian prosecutorsoleh bysumber an Israeli sourceIsrael.
DetailsPerincian of thekes Belgian caseboleh aredi availabledapati atdi http://www.indictsharon.net (unofficiallaman web tidak activistrasmi websiteaktivist).
==ExternalPautan Linksluar==
* [http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/kahan.html Kahan Commission of Inquiry] – Israel's official investigation into the massacre.
* [http://www.israeltodamascus.com/index.htm From Israel to Damascus] – a book written by Elie Hobeika's bodyguard that includes the description of how Hobeika carried out the massacre.
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* [http://www.gotc.org/st16.7.1.htm Statement by Guardians of the Ceder], a Lebanese-Christian nationalist group, expressing its regret over the unilaterality of the investigation in Belgium.
* "The Sabra and Shatila massacres: eye-witness reports" Leila Shahid, with an introduction by Linda Butler, in Journal of Palestine Studies XXXII, no. 1 (Autumn 2002)
