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Fighting Picks Up In Large Palestinian Refugee Camp

April 11 2017

Lebanon

Several days of fighting inside a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon have left at least seven people dead, reports Reuters

There have been intermittent clashes in recent months between the camp's factions and Islamists. Last week, the largest factions formed a joint force "to bring security to it," said a Fatah commander cited by the BBC.

The clashes began Friday in the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp when the joint security forces came under fire from radical Islamist...

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