Three Palestinians were shot dead in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday evening during a shooting attack on the camp.
Lebanon’s national news agency reported that two Palestinians Mahmoud Abdel Karim Saleh and Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu al-Yaman were killed following the initial murder of Samer Hamid reportedly a member of the Fatah al-Islam battalion.
The agency added that the situation remained tense in the camp in the afternoon with gunshots still being heard while Palestinian contacts were being held in an attempt to broker a ceasefire between the gunmen.
The largest and most crowded refugee camp in Lebanon Ain al-Hilweh is home to thousands of registered refugees who were forced out of their villages following Israel’s creation on the land of Palestine.
However the refugee community significantly increased since 2011 as a result of the raging Syrian warfare as Palestinians have been displaced a second time from refugee camps across Syria.
