Tension has been running high in Ein al-Hilweh Camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon as armed clashes left a child dead.
According to a Tuesday report by the Lebanese National News Agency a security mayhem flared up at the early morning hours as handmade grenades and gunshots were fired in the area.
Palestinian sources said a child sustained wounds during bloody clashes that rocked Ein al-Hilweh Camp. Lebanese sources later proclaimed the child dead.
Last week clashes between Fatah and extremist groups left a number of refugees wounded just a couple of days after Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas popped in the Lebanese territories.
Lebanese outlets said a proposal put forth by Abbas during his meeting with Lebanese president Michel Aoun called for military intervention by the Lebanese army into Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Lebanese journalist Ali al-Amin said Aoun refused the proposal.
He added that the suggestion elucidates the reasons behind the withdrawal of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from the security committee in Ein al-Hilweh and other refugee camps just one week before Abbas’s arrival in Beirut.
