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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Miyeh Miyeh Clashes Subside after Two Wounded
2018-10-26
[An Nahar] Heavy festivities erupted Thursday at the Miyeh Miyeh Paleostinian refugee camp near Sidon between the mainstream Fatah Movement and the Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
-backed Islamist faction Ansarullah.

The sounds of shelling and gunfire were being heard across the city of Sidon, the National News Agency said.

The agency later reported that the fighting had subsided following Lebanese and Paleostinian political contacts and meetings.

It also reported that two people had been injured -- a Fatah member and a civilian.

NNA said stray bullets from the festivities reached areas that neighbor the camp such as the town of Hlaliyeh east of Sidon, where one of the gunshots penetrated the glass facade of one of the houses without causing casualties.

The fighting also sparked panic among the region's residents, who have urged authorities to put an end to the recurrent festivities, the agency added.

MP Bahia Hariri of al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement meanwhile had held a series of phone calls aimed at reaching "an instant ceasefire," NNA said.

Hariri's contacts involved Fatah's most bigwig in Leb Fathi Abu al-Ardat, Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",' top official in Leb Ahmed Abdul Hadi, the chief of Lebanese military intelligence in the South Brig. Gen. Fawzi Hamadi, and the head of military intelligence in Sidon Brig. Gen. Mamdouh Saab.

The festivities between the two movements had first erupted on October 16, leaving several people dead.

Lebanese Army units had on Wednesday redeployed around the camp in order to "bring the security situation under control," the army said in a statement.

An army force had deployed Tuesday at the camp's entrance before withdrawing abruptly for "logistic reasons," the National News Agency said.

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