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Chekka Masscare (arabic: مذبحة شكا) was a massacre carried out in July 1976 by palestinian terrorists from the PLO againstchristian citizens of the village of Chekka, north Lebanon. This massacre was a part of the lebanese civil war.

The village of Chekka is a small maronite village in Lebanon,in the Batroun casa. At the time of the civil war, chekka was a christian enclave surrounded by muslims and palestinian fighters based in Tripoli. Dozens of civilians, mostly Christians, were murdered and tortured by Arafat's fighters.