Sources reported that a member of the Palestinian "Fatah" movement was killed in the "Ain al-Hilweh" camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon, and others were wounded, during armed clashes with what they described as "Islamic activists."
A Palestinian security source told Anadolu Agency, preferring not to be named, today, Thursday, that "the clashes renewed less than an hour after the return of calm to the camp, after it witnessed clashes on Wednesday evening, between the Fatah movement in the Barkasat area and Islamist activists in the Safsaf neighborhood."
The same source added that "following the announcement of the death of a member of the Fatah movement (Mahmoud Z.) from wounds he sustained during the clashes that took place yesterday, the shooting in the camp was renewed a little while ago."
For his part, Major General Mounir Miqdah, a prominent leader in the Fatah movement, said that the clashes took place between members of the Fatah movement and Islamic groups.
"Continuous meetings are taking place to put an end to the state of tension that negatively affects the camp's residents and its surroundings," he told AFP. "The camp will not be an arena for security tampering."
Ain al-Hilweh camp was established in 1948, and it is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon in terms of population, with about 50,000 refugees registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The number of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is about 200,000, distributed among 12 camps, most of which are under the influence of Palestinian factions, and some of them witness from time to time tensions and armed clashes.