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However estimates of the Phalange's membership by Yezid Sayigh and other academic sources put them at a few thousand.

Non-academic sources tend to inflate the Phalanges membership.

What should be kept in mind was that this insurrection was met with widespread disapproval by many Lebanese who wanted no part in the regional politics and many young men aided the Phalange in their suppression of the insurrection, especially as many of the demonstrators were little more than proxy forces hired by groups such as the ANM and Fatah founders as well as being hired by the defeated parliamentary bosses.