What is Lebanese Civil War?
The '''Lebanese Civil War''' (April 1975 – October 1990)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yNTQ-BDLPxIC&dq=lebanese+civil+war&pg=PA59|title=Understanding Civil War: Europe, Central Asia, and other regions|last1=Collier|first1=Paul|last2=Sambanis|first2=Nicholas|date=2005-01-01|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=978-0-8213-6050-7|language=en}}</ref> was a [[conflict]] that was significantly worsened by Lebanon's changing [[demographics]]. Fighting was between the Islamic movements [[Sunni|Sunnis]] and [[Shia|Shias]], as well as [[Christian|Christians]] and [[Muslim|Muslims]]. Involvement from external actors, such as [[Syria]], [[Israel]], and the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO), worsened and made the existing conflict more complicated, with the additional impact of the [[Israel–Palestine conflict|Palestinian-Israeli]] tensions slowly intertwining with the Lebanese Civil War. This was triggered by about 300,000 Palestinian individuals living in refugee camps at the Lebanese border.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Sources in the history of the modern Middle East|last=Khater|first=Akram Fouad|date=2011|publisher=Wadsworth/Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-618-95853-5|edition=2nd|location=Boston, MA|pages=233}}</ref> After a short break in the fighting in 1976 due to [[Arab League]] mediation and Syrian intervention, fighting continued in South [[Lebanon]], first occupied by the PLO and after that by Israel. Violent events increased from the end of the 1960s and the first half of 1970s. Several armed movements were created, with different political views. The [[Lebanese National Movement]], led by [[Kamal Jumblatt,|Kamal Jumblatt]], wanted to end the religious class society system.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=al-Khazen|first=Farid|date=1988|title=Kamal Jumblatt, the Uncrowned Druze Prince of the Left.|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283235|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=24|issue=2|pages=178–205|doi=10.1080/00263208808700737 |jstor=4283235 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> Sunni and Shi'i struggled for mor