Karantina (Arabic: القرنطينة al-qarantīna) is a residential area in eastern Beirut, named so after having been an old immigration quarantine area. It is close to a main port and adjacent to the Beirut River.There is a slaughterhouse in Karantina that is reportedly one of the main polluters of the river[1]. Central Beirut (2004) Beirut (Arabic: , transliterated BayrÅ«t - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse. ...

Karantina was the scene of a massacre of Shi'a, Kurds and Palestinians by Lebanese Christian militias during the Lebanese Civil War. For this, see Karantina Massacre. The word massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents, that would often qualify as war crimes or atrocities. ... Shia Islam ( Arabic شيعى follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ... Kurds are one of the Iranian peoples and speak Kurdish, a north-Western Iranian language related to Persian. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... As a noun, Christian is an appellation and moniker deriving from the appellation Christ, which many people associate exclusively with Jesus of Nazareth. ... A militia is a group of citizens organized to provide paramilitary service. ... For the civil conflict of 1958, see Lebanon crisis of 1958. ... The Karantina Massacre took place during the Lebanese Civil War on January 18, 1976. ...