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Inter-Palestinian clashes wound 10-year-old girl in south Lebanon

Dec 5, 2007, 16:37 GMT

Beirut - Armed clashes Wednesday between rival Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon wounded a 10-year-old Palestinian girl, a Palestinian source said. 'Armed clashes broke out between Fatah members and former militiamen of the Islamist grouping Osbat al-Ansar inside Ain al- Hilweh camp,' the source said. He said the girl had been wounded during the exchange of machine- gun fire. The fighting stopped after Palestinian factions intervened. The source added, 'the clashes erupted following a (personal) dispute between members of the two camps.' Last month, a similar clash between militants of Fatah and of the pro-Syrian Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in a Burj al-Barajneh camp wounded three people last month. During the summer fierce fighting raged for three months at the Palestinian Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam militants, a fundamentalist group loyal to al-Qaeda and also linked to Osbat al-Ansar. Under the 1969 Cairo agreement, the Lebanese army is banned from entering refugee camps, leaving security in the hands of the Palestinian factions. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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