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Two killed in clashes in Palestinian camp in Lebanon
Feb 15, 2010, 16:44 GMT
Beirut - A member of the mainstream Fatah movement and a civilian woman were killed when clashes erupted Monday inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el Hilweh in southern Lebanon, Palestinian sources said.
The clashes involved members from Fatah movement, who are loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and others from a Sunni fundamentalist group called Jund al-Sham (Soldiers of Greater Syria), which has links with al Qaeda.
There are some 367,000 Palestinian refugees living in 12 camps across Lebanon. The security inside the camps are in the hands of Palestinian groups while the entrances of the camps are monitored by the Lebanese army.
On January 2, a Fatah member was killed in similar clashes.
Jund al-Sham is a terrorist group believed to have first appeared in Afghanistan in 1999. The group was established by Syrians and Palestinians with links to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who went on to found al-Qaeda in Iraq and was killed by a US airstrike in 2006.
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