Throughout the Falkland Islands conflict Morris was in Buenos Aires , one of only a handful of British journalists allowed into Argentina to report from the enemy side during a war . Immediately after the war ended , he was assigned to Israel to cover the invasion of southern Lebanon . When the BBC decided to switch him to the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ) side he was trapped inside West Beirut with the guerrilla forces of Yasser Arafat and under daily shellfire from the Israeli Defense Force ( IDF ) . While in Beirut , Morris broke the news of the massacre of 3,500 Palestinians by Lebanese Phalangist militias in Sabra and Shatila . He managed to smuggle video-recorded evidence of the event to Damascus in neighbouring Syria where the pictures were sent by satellite to London . The pictures caused worldwide protests and almost led to the downfall of the Israeli government . Defence minister Ariel Sharon , later to become Prime Minister , was forced to resign over complicity in the refugee camp attacks
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Sabra and Shatila massacre
Christopher Morris (news presenter)