Tensions high in Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

December 18, 2011 ⋅ 6:58 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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Security officials say tensions are running high in Lebanon’s largest refugee camp after a shooting that killed a bodyguard of a prominent Palestinian.

A masked gunman shot and killed a bodyguard of the commander of the mainstream Fatah group’s armed faction at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon.

Three others were wounded in the shooting Sunday, according to the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.

Armed clashes between rival factions in Ein el-Hilweh are common. The camp houses more than 65,000 refugees.

There are rising concerns in Beirut that the conflict in neighboring Syria could spill over into Lebanon, where political factions are deeply divided between supporters and opponents of the Syrian regime.

WP/AP

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Anonymous

lebanese governement is stupid to allwo any forigners carry weapons on there land , they should disrm all those terrorrist organizations , how could they allow those people have weapons they have used it against lebaneese people and massaccered and killed lebaneese people .

Anonymous

because Bashaar wants to keep them like this so he can use them in the same way he is using now…to create chaos and disruption.

Anonymous

maybe hezbollah is preparing to attack the camps and disarm the palestinians out of a fear that the sunni power is growing , and when the sunnis rise to power in syria they will support the lebaneese sunnis and also the palestinians who are moslty sunnis in lebanon against hezbollah and that is the biggest fear of hezbollah is the collapse of the syrian regeme.

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