3 Dead, 10 Hurt in Fatah-Hamas Clash at Lebanon Refugee Camp
Three people were killed and ten others wounded Sunday in an armed clash at the al-Bourj al-Shamali Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, al-Jadeed TV said.
The TV network said the clash, between the Islamist Hamas Movement and the secular Fatah Movement, broke out during the funeral of Hamas member Hamza Ibrahim Shahine, who was killed in Friday's blasts at the camp.
Hamas said Saturday that the explosions that shook the camp on Friday were caused by an electrical short-circuit in a storage area for oxygen bottles used to treat coronavirus patients.
Later in the day however, a Lebanese security official said that the explosion in the camp was clearly ammunition -- not oxygen bottles.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency had reported late Friday that arms stored for Hamas exploded Friday in the al-Bourj al-Shamali camp, killing and injuring a number of people.
Source: Naharnet
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