Conflict Incident Report

In the Akkar, North Lebanon, armed men from the neighboring Muslim village of Funaydiq, with Palestinian members of the PFLP,64 attacked the Christian village of Tel Abbas with RPGs and gunfire, killing at least 15 civilians and kidnapping nine others. They burned the church and 40 houses. A number of the casualties were Greek Orthodox Christians affiliated with the Lebanese Communist Party. As a result of this attack, a new wave of Christians from the north left the Akkar and Tripoli and headed toward Syria.