Six killed at Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

At slightest six radical person been killed during clashes astatine a Palestinian exile campy successful Lebanon implicit the weekend.

Clashes astatine the Ein el-Hilweh campy broke retired betwixt Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah question and rival Islamist groups.

Among the six dormant was a Fatah commander, the question confirmed.

Established successful 1948, the restive Ein el-Hilweh campy is the largest successful Lebanon with much than 63,000 registered refugees, the UN says.

Some estimates accidental the colonisation is higher.

The camp, situated adjacent the confederate metropolis of Sidon, falls extracurricular the jurisdiction of the Lebanese information forces.

It is near up to rival factions wrong the campy to support its security, but factional disputes are common.

The weekend's unit erupted connected Saturday erstwhile a subordinate of the Islamist al-Shabab al-Muslim radical was killed, AFP quality bureau quoting an unnamed root wrong the campy arsenic saying. Six others including the group's person were wounded, it added.

Tensions continued to equine done to Sunday, culminating with the decease of the Fatah commander, Ashraf al-Armouchi, and 4 of his aides.

In a connection quoted by AFP, Fatah denounced an "abominable and cowardly crime" aimed astatine undermining the "security and stability" of the Palestinian camps successful Lebanon.

As good arsenic the six dead, Lebanese soldiers were besides injured during the violence, the Lebanese service said.

The manager of the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees successful Lebanon (UNRWA), Dorothee Kraus, said each the agency's operations successful the campy had been suspended.

She called connected "all militant parties to guarantee civilians' information and respect inviolability of UN premises".

A ceasefire has since been agreed, according to a associated connection quoted by AFP.

More than 479,000 refugees are registered with UNRWA successful Lebanon, the bureau says. About fractional unrecorded successful the country's 12 exile camps, which person "dire" surviving conditions, it adds.

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