From the sixteenth to the eighteenth of September In 1982, Christian Phalangists entered the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in western Beirut and massacred 1,800 refugees (Shen; Siegel; Turbi ). Ellen Siegel, who worked as a nurse in a hospital in the Sabra camp, remembers a particular event that occurred on the evening of Thursday, September 16: “Some other health workers and I went up to one of the highest floors of the hospital… she observed for a while ' as rockets were fired into the air, brightly illuminating different parts of the field” (Siegel 92). A nineteen-year-old Israeli soldier named Ari Foleman also saw the rockets light up the sky above the Sabra and Shatila camps. For Foleman, his connection to the massacres that occurred in the camps was so horrific that he repressed his memories of the events. It was only twenty-four years later, when a friend came to tell Foleman about a disturbing dream he had during the First Lebanon War in 1982, that Foleman realized he did not remember the main events of the war. After this realization Foleman embarked on a journey to find out what he didn't remember about the first Lebanon war. His journey would become Waltz with Bashir (2008 d. Ari Foleman) and Foleman would use his experience to show how each soldier reacts to the hell on earth that is war. Yet for Foleman the horror of remembering the Sabra and Shatila massacres is so incomprehensible that animation is used to cope with the visualization of reality. To understand Waltz with Bashir as an animated documentary, it is necessary to explore the choice to use animation in the film's production. In the case of Waltz with Bashir the animation is used both to shield the audience's view from the horrors of war and to inject more......middle of paper......ch Premier. Network. November 9, 2009.Murrary, Joathan. "Waltz with Bashir." Cineaste 34.2 (2009): 65-68. Premier of academic research. Network. November 9, 2009.Shen, Ivy. "Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, Lebanon, 2009." Palestine - Israeli Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture 15/16.4/1 (2008): 96-98. Premier of academic research. Network. November 9, 2009.Siegel, Ellen. "After Nineteen Years: Sabra and Shatila Remembered." Middle East Politics 8.4 (2001): 86. Premier academic research. Network. November 9, 2009."Technique of the month: documentation." Esquire January 2009: 22-22. Premier of academic research. Network. November 9, 2009.Turbi, Omar A. “Council on World Affairs Delegation Visits Sabra/Shatila on Massacre.” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs 21.9 (200): 28. Premier of academic research. Network. 9 November 2009. Waltz with Bashir. Director Ari Folmann. Perf. Ari Folemann. Sony Picture Classics, 2008. DVD.