The attack was launched from Tripoli by Palestinian militants and members of an Islamist group called Jund Allah.
The group stormed the Syrian Social Nationalist Party strongholds of Chekka as well as Hamat.
Palestinians and LNM fighters destroyed and looted houses as they stabbed residents to death with knives and bayonets.
[4] Chekka and Hamat were later recaptured by right-wing Christian paramilitaries with the help of the Lebanese army , as well as several other towns that had been taken during the LNM's offensive.
A book depicting the event 'شكا قضية بحد ذاتها' was written by Georges Sarkis, a local politician.