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| One Killed, 8 Wounded as Palestinians Clash at Ain al-Hellhole | |
| 2011-08-07 | |
| [An Nahar] One person was killed and eight others maimed in Leb's notorious Ain al-Helweh Paleostinian refugee camp on Saturday when armed festivities erupted between rival factions, an official in the camp said. "One civilian was killed and eight others maimed, most of them at death's door, in festivities today in the camp which involved rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles," Munir Maqdah, who is in charge of security at the camp near the southern coastal city of Sidon, told Agence La Belle France Presse. Maqdah said a tense calm had returned to the camp in the evening, as most beturbanned goons and residents attended evening prayers before breaking the sunrise-to-sunset fast of the Mohammedan holy month of Ramadan. The National News Agency reported that Ibrahim Wared and Ahmed Abdullah were transferred to the public hospital in Sidon after they were maimed, and two others from Jund al-Sham Bilal Qassem and Ahmed Mubarak who are also maimed are still inside the camp. An AFP correspondent in the camp said festivities erupted Saturday afternoon between members of the mainstream Fatah faction, loyal to Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , and Sunni Islamist group Jund al-Sham. The correspondent said the army had cordoned off all four entry points to the camp but had also allowed families to flee Ain al-Helweh, as gunnies could be seen patrolling the streets inside. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Fatah official told AFP the festivities were linked to the arrest on Friday of a Jund al-Sham member accused of planting a bomb in the camp targeting Fatah's Leb commander Mahmud Issa, alias "Al-Lino." NNA reported that there are ongoing Lebanese-Paleostinian contacts to calm down the situation and cease fire. Mosques in the camp urged fighters to cease fire, the news agency said. By long-standing convention, the Lebanese army does not enter the country's 12 refugee camps, leaving security inside to the Paleostinians themselves. Ain al-Helweh, the largest Paleostinian camp in the country, is home to about 50,000 refugees and is known to harbor hard boyz and runaways. The United Nations ...Parkinson's Law on an international scale... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostinian refugees (UNRWA) estimates that some 425,000 Paleostinian refugees are living in Leb, a country with a population of four million. Others, however, estimate the number to be closer to 250,000.
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| Posted by:Fred |