The Kataeb Regulatory Forces – KRF or Forces Régulatoires des Kataeb in French, were the military wing of the right-wing Lebanese Christian Kataeb Party, otherwise known as the 'Phalange', from 1961 t
Bashir Gemayel and William Hawi supervising the training of Kataeb militiamen at Tabrieh, 1972.
William Hawi with KRF junior commander Amine Gemayel at Tel al-Zaatar, 1976.
William Hawi with Kataeb militiamen at Tel al-Zaatar, 1976.
The 1975 Beirut bus massacre, also known as the Ain el-Rammaneh incident and Black Sunday, was the collective name given to a short series of armed clashes involving Phalangist and Palestinian element
Kataeb Regulatory Forces
…of Kahale in the Aley District, killing ten people and wounding an even greater number, mostly Palestinians. Apart from being implicated in the early April 1975 Bus massacre that is commonly presented as the spark that triggered the civil war, the Kataeb RF perpetrated the infamous Black Saturday killings – allegedly carried…
Image of the scene after the attack
The Church of Notre Dame de la Delivrance, in front of which took place the assassination attempt on Pierre Gemayel.