TENSIONS between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah continue to escalate in the two countries’ border region.
Footage captured on Thursday shows the battle-scarred Ein Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp peppered with bullet holes in the aftermath of renewed clashes between rival factions, despite a ceasefire agreement.
The fighting on Wednesday in Ein El-Hilweh, the largest of 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, was reportedly the most deadly since the clashes began on Sunday, although had calmed the following day.
The conflict between hardline Islamist groups and the Fatah movement, backed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has left at least 13 people dead, 60 wounded and as many as 20,000 displaced near the port city of Saida.
Lebanon warns to bring in the army if clashes in Palestinian refugee camp continue
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has threatened to send in the Lebanese army to the said refugee camp.
Palestinian leaders called the conflict a ‘heinous massacre’ and a ‘terrorist assassination of national security forces who were striving to keep the camp and its residents safe’.
Note, more than 60,000 people are believed to live in the area, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the near east (UNRWA).
