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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
One dead as clashes rock Palestinian camp in Lebanon
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleOne civilian was killed and four wounded today in fierce clashes that rocked Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp for the sixth day, a medical source told AFP.
The fighting in Ain al-Hilweh near Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon has pitted members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement against Islamist groups.
Even as factions declared a ceasefire from the Palestinian embassy in Beirut, plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the camp on Tuesday, AFP’s correspondent says.
“A 23-year-old civilian was killed in the fighting,” a medical source at the Rai hospital in Sidon told AFP.
“We also treated four people including a young boy who was hit by a stray bullet and who is in critical condition,” the source adds.
— AFP
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