 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mazuva mapfumbamwe asati atora basa, pana September 14, 1982, Bachir akaurayiwa pamwe chete navamwe 25 apo bhomba rakaputika muhofisi huru yeKataeb muAchrafieh. Kurwiswa uku kwakaitwa naHabib Shartouni, nhengo yeSyria Social Nationalist Party SSNP, iyo inofungidzirwa nevakawanda kuti yakaita maererano nemirairo yehurumende yeSyria yeMutungamiri Hafez al-Assad. Zuva rakatevera racho, Israeri yakaenda kunotora guta racho, ichibvumira nhengo dzePhalangist dzaitungamirirwa naElie Hobeika kupinda muSabra iri pakati nepakati uye mumusasa wevapoteri weShatila; kuurayiwa kwevanhu vakawandayakatevera, umo maPhalangist akauraya pakati pa762 na3.500 nhamba iri kukakavadzana vanhuwo zvavo, zvikurukuru vaPalestine navaShia vokuRebhanoni, zvichikonzera nyonganyonga huru yamarudzi ose. 