Belgium`s supreme appeals court ruled on February

Belgium`s supreme appeals court ruled on February 12, 2003 that a genocide lawsuit against Ariel Sharon could go ahead once he no longer enjoyed immunity as prime minister of Israel, the plaintiffs` lawyer said. The survivors had appealed against a lower court ruling last June that Sharon could not be prosecuted the massacre in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut because he was not in Belgium. Local residents are shown looking at bodies in a refugee camp in Beirut in this 1982 file photo. Photo by Ali Jarekji/Reuters

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