Phalangist

British  

/ fəˈlændʒɪst /

noun

1. 1. a member of a Lebanese Christian paramilitary organization founded in 1936 and originally based on similar ideas to the fascist Falange in Spain

   2. ( as modifier )

      Phalangist leaders

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Example Sentences

In 1982, while an invading Israeli army controlled Beirut, Christian Phalangist militiamen massacred hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

From New York Times

Back in the late 1970s, when I was covering the Lebanese civil war, a story made the rounds in Beirut that the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia had come up with a novel way of discovering a Palestinian trying to pass through one of its checkpoints.

From Seattle Times

It includes most political groups, including the militant Hezbollah, but the Christian Phalangist party rejected the portfolio it was offered.

From BBC

The Phalangist militia itself was responsible for one of the war’s lowest points: the 1982 massacre of hundreds of civilians at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

From The Guardian

Phares is reported to have been a member of the Phalangist militia, a Christian Maronite force, during Lebanon’s brutal sectarian civil war that spanned 1975-1990.

From The Guardian