One killed in Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp
The brother of a wanted Islamist was killed inside Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday, state media said.
A young man who was "the target of an assassination operation inside the Ain al-Helweh camp died after sustaining serious wounds," Lebanon's National News Agency said.
"He is the brother of a wanted Islamist who does not belong to any faction in the camp," the news agency added.
The camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon was rocked by deadly clashes earlier this year that pitted members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hardline Islamist militants.
Hamas, the Islamist group which carried out a historic attack on Israel from Gaza on October 7, was not involved in the fighting.
Last month, Palestinian fighters agreed a ceasefire after more than a week of deadly violence.
In late July, five days of fighting in the camp killed 13 people and wounded dozens.
Ain al-Helweh is home to more than 54,000 registered refugees and thousands of Palestinians who joined them in recent years fleeing the civil war in neighboring Syria.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese Army stays out of the camps and leaves the Palestinian factions to handle security.
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What is a refugee? According to the UN (except for UNWRA) a refugee is someone who was removed/expelled from his home.
Out of the 54,000 registered people in that camp, just how many are over 75 years old? All the rest were born where there presently are and are not genuine refugees.
It is the problem that Lebanon, and other Arab states, refused to absorb those who left their homes in 1948 and have forced them for over 75 years to continue to live in camps, in contrast to the 800,000 Jewish refugees who were forced to leave their homes in the Arab States and were absorbed completely into life in the State of Israel.
