On this day in 1976, Palestinian terrorists massacred hundreds of innocent Lebanese Christians in Damour, Lebanon. They gang-raped the women and shot the babies at close range. The PLO ethnically cleansed the town and took possession. 

The Damour massacre took place on January 20, 1976, during the 1975–1990 Lebanese Civil War. Damour, a Maronite Christian town on the main highway south of Beirut, was attacked by the left-wing militants of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and as-Sa'iqa units. 

Many of its people died in battle or in the massacre that followed, and the others were forced to flee.

In addition to the hundreds of civilians, including women, the elderly, and children, killed by the PLO and other militias, many women were gang-raped and babies were shot from close range; houses belonging to Christians were also systematically destroyed, and graves of the Christian cemetery were dug up and old skeletons scattered in the streets.

The massacre was part of the first act of ethnic cleansing in the Lebanese Civil War, the leadership of Fatah and as-Sa'iqa having made a decision to "empty the city".