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Shin Bet says it foiled Iranian plan to smuggle advanced weapons to West Bank terrorists

2024-03-26

[IsraelTimes] The Shin Bet security agency reveals that it recently foiled attempts by Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to smuggle large shipments of advanced weapons to terror operatives in the West Bank to be used to carry out attacks on Israeli targets.

According to the Shin Bet, behind the plot was Iran’s unit 4000, the Special Operations Division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Intelligence Organization, headed by Jawad Ghafari, and the special operations unit of the IRGC’s Quds Force in Syria, known as unit 18840, which is subordinate to the head of Iran’s unit 840, Asghar Bakri.

The plot was uncovered by the Shin Bet and IDF during the interrogations of detained Paleostinians, who were suspected of planning terror attacks.

The investigation also revealed that a senior Fatah official, Munir Makdah, a resident of Leb
Leb

...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Ein el-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp, was involved in the plans, the Shin Bet says.

Makdah, according to the Shin Bet, has been known to Israel for years as "working for Hezbollah and the IRGC, and continues to try and advance terror attacks these days."

During the interrogation of the detained Paleostinian suspects, the Shin Bet says it emerged that Makdah worked to recruit West Bank Paleostinians to carry out terror attacks and smuggle in Iranian weapons, as well as fund them.

The Shin Bet says the IDF captured a "significant" amount of advanced arms from Iran that were smuggled into the West Bank, as part of the investigation into Makdah and the Iranian plot.

Among the weapons captured were two large BTB15 fragmentation bombs, five YM-2 anti-tank landmines with fuses, four M203 grenade launchers, 15 kilograms of C4 explosives, 10 kilograms of Semtex plastic explosives, 13 shoulder-launched anti-tank missiles, 15 RPG launchers, 16 RPG-7 rockets and propellent, 15 hand grenades, 33 M4 assault rifles and 50 handguns.

The Shin Bet says it and the IDF are working to locate additional Iranian weapons smuggled into the West Bank, as well as kill or capture terror cells recruited by Iranian operatives.

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Amid tensions, Fatah offshoot accuses Islamist rivals of turning West Bank into Syria

2023-09-21

[IsraelTimes] In video, Tanzim militia accuses factions of seditious ties to Iran; PA officials accuse Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", of working with Salafi-jihadist forces in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
camp.

In a video circulating on social media since Tuesday, a dozen turbans of the pro-Fatah Tanzim militia accused a rival Islamist gang of turning the West Bank into "Syria, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and Iraq" — three Middle East countries wracked by civil wars over the past decade, with the involvement of Tehran.

In their video statement, the Tanzim members accused the Jenin Battalion — a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group — of conspiring with "Persian Shi’ite Iran" against Fatah, the "only Sunni weapon in the Arab homeland," in a bid to sow strife and chaos among the Paleostinian people.

The Tanzim militia is an armed offshoot of Fatah founded in 1995 by Yasser Arafat to counter rival Paleostinian Islamist groups. The militia, officially headed by Marwan Barghouti who is imprisoned in Israel for deadly terror attacks, has sought to siphon support from Islamist groups towards the PA leadership.

The Tanzim message introduced an atypical anti-Shiite element in Fatah’s rhetoric against opposing factions, evoking common anti-Shiite canards such as their "insulting the Companions of the Prophet [Muhammad]" — a reference to a theological dispute between Sunnis and Shiites on the legitimate successors to the Prophet.

Both the PIJ and Hamas, Fatah’s most prominent Islamist rivals, have made no secret of their close collaboration with Tehran, which supplies them with money and weaponry. Leaders of the two groups met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Damascus in May and again with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in early September in Beirut. Last year, PIJ chief Ziad Nakhaleh said his organization took "direct orders" from the Quds Force’s late commander Qassem Soleimani

and that rockets it used to attack Israel were provided by Iran.

The video statement came amid escalating tensions between the PA’s security services and terror groups in the northern West Bank. The Jenin Battalion is suspected of being behind recent attacks against PA security forces, which included shooting toward their headquarters in Jenin and a shooting against a patrol car of the customs police on September 18, in which four agents were maimed.

In response, the PA announced it had compiled a list of 30 Jenin Battalion members it is about to arrest, including some who are on Israel’s top wanted list, continuing an ongoing crackdown on the terror group.

The Jenin Battalion is also responsible for Tuesday’s festivities with the IDF in the Jenin refugee camp, in which four operatives were killed.

The Tanzim video came one day after the Fatah branch in Jenin issued a statement accusing its internal enemies of collaboration with an "Iranian-Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
" axis (a contradiction, as Islamic State was born out of antagonism to Shiites and has carried out terror attacks inside Iran).

The allegation indicated an attempt by PA officials to group together radical Islamist rivals on multiple fronts. For nearly two months, Fatah forces have been engaged in another armed confrontation outside the West Bank, in the Ein el-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, which erupted when a Fatah general was killed in late July.

Whee. A war of all against all.

Analysts on the PA’s Awda TV channel have claimed that the festivities between Fatah security forces and Islamist groups have been fueled by terrorist Salafi-jihadi elements infiltrating into Lebanon from Syria, with links to Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Such radical groups are referred to in Arabic as takfiri

...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
, for their practice of excommunicating (takfir) any Moslem who does not subjugate themselves to their turban interpretation of religion.

The presence of such turban groups is an established fact in Ein el-Hilweh, for instance, the camp was the birthplace of a radical Salafi group called Osbat al-Ansar, which was declared a terror organization after 9/11 for its ties to al-Qaeda, and bombed nightclubs and liquor stores in an attempt to establish an Islamic state in Lebanon.

Various PA sources have accused Hamas members in the Lebanese camp of having entered into a collaboration with jihadist groups. In an editorial in the PA’s official newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar accused the "Islamic State-like" Hamas of using the support of other more radical terror groups in Ein el-Hilweh to advance its plans to control the Paleostinian political and security leadership, at the expense of the real goal — the struggle for Paleostinian "liberation."

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Five more killed as renewed clashes engulf Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

2023-09-14

[IsraelTimes] Intensified festivities in Leb
Leb

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Top Hamas leader in Beirut in a bid to stop clashes at Palestinian refugee camp

2023-09-13

[IsraelTimes] A top Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, leader arrives in Beirut to push for an end to festivities in Leb
Leb

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Death toll rises in Ain el-Helweh as Mikati rebukes Abbas

2023-09-11

[An Nahar] Three fighters and a civilian have been killed in festivities over the past hours in the Ain el-Helweh Paleostinian refugee camp near Sidon, official media reported, as caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati rebuked Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
over the spiralling violence.

This latest round of fighting broke out late Thursday, just weeks after deadly violence in the camp pitted members of Abbas' Fatah movement against Islamist murderous Moslems.

Clashes inside the camp on Saturday killed "two people from Fatah" and an Islamist, while "a civilian was killed by a stray bullet" outside the camp, Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
's official National News Agency (NNA) said, reporting dozens of others maimed.

"What is taking place does not serve the Paleostinian cause at all and is a serious offense to the Lebanese state" and the city of Sidon, Mikati told Abbas in a phone call, his office said in a statement.

Mikati emphasized "the priority of ending military operations and cooperating with Lebanese security forces to address tensions," according to the statement on X, formerly Twitter.

Ain el-Helweh is home to more than 54,000 registered refugees and thousands of Paleostinians who joined them in recent years from Syria, fleeing war in the neighboring country.

Ceasefire reached after 3 days of renewed fighting in Palestinian camps in Lebanon

[IsraelTimes] Islamist factions in Leb’s largest Paleostinian refugee camp say they will abide by a ceasefire after three days of festivities killed at least five people and left hundreds of families displaced.

Fighting between Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement and Islamist groups has rocked southern Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp since Friday. Besides the five killed, 52 others were maimed, Dr. Riad Abu al-Einen, who heads the al-Hamshari Hospital in Sidon that has received the casualties, tells The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

The interim chief of Lebanon’s General Security agency Elias al-Baysari says he will attend a meeting tomorrow between Paleostinian factions and urge the factions to reach a resolution.

The clashing factions in the camp say in a statement published today by Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency that they plan to abide by a ceasefire.

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~~Two~~ Three dead as renewed clashes rock Ain el-Helweh

2023-09-10

[AnNahar] Two people were killed Saturday in festivities that erupted again after a relatively calm night at the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on Sidon's outskirts, official media reported.

Fresh violence broke out late Thursday in Ain el-Helweh, just weeks after deadly festivities pitted members of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
' Fatah movement against Islamist bully boys.

Ongoing fighting inside the camp on Saturday killed one person and maimed seven others, Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
's official National News Agency (NNA) said.

A source in the camp's Paleostinian leadership told AFP on condition of anonymity that the man killed was an Islamist bully boy.

The NNA said a second person was killed and several others maimed outside Ain el-Helweh by stray bullets.

While calm had largely prevailed overnight, heavy festivities broke out on Saturday morning, an AFP correspondent in Sidon said, reporting the sound of automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades.

A public hospital directly adjacent to the camp transferred all its patients to other facilities due to the danger, its director Ahmad al-Samadi told AFP.

Ain el-Helweh is home to more than 54,000 registered refugees and thousands of Paleostinians who joined them in recent years from Syria, fleeing war in the neighboring country.

The camp, Lebanon's largest, was created for Paleostinians who were driven out or fled during the 1948 war that coincided with Israel's creation.

In the worst outbreak of violence in the camp in years, five days of festivities that began in late July left 13 people dead and dozens maimed.

Those festivities erupted after the death of an Islamist bully boy, followed by an ambush that killed five Fatah members including a military leader.

The United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
' resident coordinator in Lebanon, Imran Riza, on Friday urged "gangs to stop the fighting in the camp" and to "immediately" vacate schools belonging to the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA.

"The use of gangs of schools amounts to gross violations" of international law, Riza said in a statement.

Lebanon hosts an estimated 250,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to UNRWA.

Most live in one of Lebanon's 12 official camps, and face a variety of legal restrictions including on employment.

By long-standing convention, the army does not enter Paleostinian camps -- now bustling but impoverished urban districts -- leaving the factions themselves to handle security.

Al Ahram adds:

Civil defense teams worked alongside the Lebanese army to put out fires caused by the fighting.

The clashes erupted on Saturday despite a ceasefire agreement on Friday evening that sought to put an end to fighting in the camp between the rival groups on Thursday and Friday.

The two days of fighting left nearly two dozen dead in the densely populated, walled-off camp.

Over the years, Islamist militants have established a presence in Ain Al-Helweh, the largest of Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps.

Its estimated 54,000 residents have been joined in recent years by some 6,000 Palestinians who sought refuge from Syria's civil war, all crammed in an area covering no more than two square kilometres (0.8 square miles).

The camp, with its narrow alleyways, is surrounded by a wall erected by the Lebanese army, whose forces control all four entrances

A 1969 agreement between Beirut and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) stipulated that security in Ain Al-Helweh and the other refugee camps was to be handled by Palestinian factions rather than Lebanese forces.

The Lebanese government annulled the deal in 1987, but the army still does not enter Palestinian camps by long-standing convention.

Fatah, which controls the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, remains the most influential actor in Ain Al-Helweh, though rival factions like Hamas and Islamic Jihad threaten its hegemony.

Parts of the camp have also become bastions of Islamist cells of Lebanese and Syrian nationals, which include some fugitives.

One of the better known of them is Lebanese-Palestinian singer Fadel Shaker, who had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting local Sunni extremist groups.

According to UNRWA, the United Nations' agency for Palestinian refugees, more than 80 percent of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon live in poverty.

More from The Times of Israel:

A Lebanese security official said the three people killed on Saturday included two Palestinians inside the camp and a Lebanese man who was hit with a stray bullet while driving outside Ein el-Hilweh. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said 10 others were wounded.

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Twenty wounded as clashes resume in Ain el-Hilweh

2023-09-09

[AnNahar] Clashes resumed in Leb
Leb

...known to residents and neighbours alike as Ein el-Hellhole...

between Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
' Fatah movement and Islamist groups after Fatah accused the Islamists of gunning down one of their military generals on July 30. Those street battles left at least 13 dead and dozens maimed, and forced hundreds to flee from their homes.

An uneasy truce has been in place since Aug. 3, but festivities were widely expected to resume as the Islamist groups have not handed over the accused killers of the Fatah general, Mohammad "Abu Ashraf" al-Armoushi to the Lebanese judiciary as demanded by a committee of Paleostinian factions earlier this month.

A committee of Paleostinian factions in Ein el-Hilweh announced on Tuesday that their joint security forces would launch raids in search of the accused killers.

Maher Shabaita, head of Fatah in the Sidon region, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the Islamist groups had launched an attack Thursday night in an attempt to forestall plans by Paleostinian forces to clear hard boyz out of schools they had been occupying in the camp.

By late morning Friday, the fighting had at least temporarily subsided.

The state-run National News Agency reported 20 people were maimed, including an elderly man, and transported to hospitals overnight. Shabaita said the maimed included three civil defense volunteers who came under shelling as they were working to extinguish fires.

There were no immediate reports of deaths. The public Lebanese University announced it would close its branches in the city of Sidon, which is adjacent to the camp, and postpone scheduled exams in light of the fighting.

Officials with the U.N. agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, could not immediately give information on the number of casualties or displaced.

UNRWA appealed last week for $15.5 million to repair infrastructure damaged in the last round of festivities in the camp, provide alternative education locations for children whose schools were damaged or occupied by bad boys, and give cash assistance to people who have been displaced from their homes.

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Lebanon warns Palestinian president that troops may intervene if clashes continue in refugee camp

2023-08-04

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can’t even control the West Bank. What could he possibly do to get the idiots to behave in another country?

[NY Post] Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister called the Palestinian president Thursday to demand an end to the volatile situation in the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, warning that Lebanese troops may intervene to stop the fighting that has left dozens dead and wounded.

Najib Mikati’s call with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas came after days of sporadic clashes between Palestinian factions in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon.

Mikati called the fighting a "flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty" and said it was unacceptable for the warring Palestinian groups to "terrorize the Lebanese, especially the people of the south who have embraced the Palestinians for many years," according to a statement released by his office.

His call came as cautious calm returned to the camp and surrounding area Thursday after a night of renewed clashes.

Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which is home to about 50,000 people, has been rocked since Sunday by fierce battles between Abbas’ Fatah party and Islamist groups Jund al-Sham and Shabab al-Muslim.

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Clashes intensify in Ain al-Helweh as death toll climbs to 9 11

2023-08-01

[AnNahar] Clashes continued Monday for the third day in a Paleostinian camp in Leb
Leb

...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
between members of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’ Fatah group and Islamist factions. The corpse count from the fighting rose to nine, officials said.

The festivities between members of Paleostinian president Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah movement and Islamists have forced dozens of frightened residents to flee their homes in the camp, which has gained notoriety as a refuge for turbans and runaways.

Limited skirmishes erupted again Sunday night, escalating into heavy festivities with gunfire and shelling on Monday, said the AFP correspondent in the southern city of Sidon, where the camp is located.

"Things are supposed to go back to normal soon," an official involved in the ceasefire negotiations told AFP, asking for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The official added that they were working on "preventing further escalation".

Paleostinian factions said they had reached a ceasefire on Sunday, but the truce did not hold.

On Monday morning, Lebanon's official news agency NNA reported "increased festivities" using heavy weaponry, with exchanges of gunfire concentrated in the al-Tawarek neighbourhood -- a stronghold for Islamist Death Eaters.

Dozens of residents, mostly women and kiddies, fled the camp carrying light luggage, while others took refuge in a nearby mosque, AFP's correspondent said.

Fighting began overnight on Saturday, killing an Islamist and injuring six others, a Paleostinian source inside the camp had told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
for security reasons.

The next day, a Fatah military leader and four of his colleagues were killed during a "heinous operation", the group said.

Shells also fell outside the walls of the camp over the past two days, AFP observed. A nearby hospital evacuated patients and shops in Sidon closed fearing further escalation.

Fighting between rival groups is common in Ain al-Helweh, which is home to more than 54,000 registered Paleostinian refugees who have been joined in recent years by thousands of Paleostinians fleeing the war in Syria.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Paleostinian president Mahmoud Abbas both issued statements Sunday decrying the violence.

Lebanese politician Osama Saad, who represents the Sidon area where the camp is located, said he and other Lebanese officials and security forces would meet with the Paleostinian factions on Monday to push for a cease-fire.

Subsequently from Dawn:

Three days of fighting in south Lebanon’s Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp have left at least 11 dead and dozens wounded, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Monday.

Clashes broke out over the weekend between members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s secular Fatah movement and Islamist fighter based in the camp, Lebanon’s largest located in the coastal city of Sidon.

Renewed gunfire and shelling on Monday shook the camp, said a correspondent in Sidon, sending frightened residents fleeing.

“According to reports, 11 were killed and another 40 were injured, including one staff member” of UNRWA, said Dorothee Klaus, the UN agency’s director in Lebanon.

Fatah and Islamist group say they have agreed on a truce in Sidon

She added in a statement that UNRWA has “temporarily suspended” operations in the camp due to the fighting.

More from The Times of Israel:

Thousands of mourners gathered in south Lebanon on Monday for the funeral of a Palestinian military general with the Fatah group, whose killing in a refugee camp in Lebanon fueled fierce sectarian street battles that have killed at least 11 people.

Three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp have pitted members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning down the general, Abu Ashraf al Armoushi, on Sunday.

A Lebanese lawmaker announced a ceasefire agreement late Monday, which appeared to calm the situation, but sporadic gunfire continued afterward. Earlier efforts to broker a ceasefire had failed to stop the shooting and shelling through the narrow streets of the Ein el-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon.

Armoushi’s funeral was held in another refugee community, the al-Rashidieh camp, where he had lived.

“This heinous crime doesn’t benefit anyone but the enemy, and that is the Zionists, because they are the primary and only beneficiary,” said Jalal Abuchehab, a Fatah official at al-Rashidieh camp, during Armoushi’s funeral.

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Bullets, shells hit Sidon as deadly clashes renew in Ain al-Hellhole; end-of-day hudna fails

2023-07-31

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Clashes renewed Sunday in the Ain al-Helweh Paleostinian refugee camp near Sidon between the secular Fatah Movement and hardline Islamist groups.

TV networks said the fighting resumed after a senior Fatah commander was killed in an ambush.

An Islamist had been killed and six people including children had been injured in overnight festivities in the camp.

Key Sidon highways were closed to traffic on Sunday as stray bullets and shells landed in various areas of the major southern Lebanese city.

Clashes between rival groups are common in Ain al-Helweh, which is home to more than 54,000 registered Paleostinian refugees who have been joined in recent years by thousands of Paleostinians fleeing the conflict in Syria.

The incidents come about two months after similar festivities killed a Fatah member in the same camp.

Leb
Leb

Actually, many live quietly outside the camps, renting out their official addresses to people in even greater distress, like Syrian refugees.
More from the second link:

One person was killed and six others injured in overnight festivities in south Lebanon's restive Ain al-Helweh Paleostinian refugee camp, a Paleostinian official told AFP Sunday.

Clashes inside the camp left "one dead and six camp residents injured, including children," said Munir Makdah, a bigwig in Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
' Fatah Movement.

"We are working... to end the festivities and hand over those involved in the incident," he added.

"An Islamist from al-Shabab al-Muslim group was killed, and a leader in the group was among the maimed," said a Paleostinian source inside the camp, who requested not to be identified for security reasons.

Everyone is pitching in in this story — more from the Times of Israel:

The ongoing clashes are taking place as Palestinian factions in Ein el-Hilweh for years have cracked down on militant Islamist groups and fugitives seeking shelter in the camp’s overcrowded neighborhoods. In 2017, Palestinian factions engaged in almost a week of fierce clashes with a militant organization affiliated with the Islamic State terror group.

The Palestinian officials, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the clashes broke out after an unknown gunman tried to assassinate Islamist militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion of his instead.

Factions used assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers in the overcrowded camp, as ambulances zoomed through its narrow streets to take the wounded to the hospital. Several residents fled the crossfire to nearby neighborhoods in the camp.

According to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, six people were wounded in the overnight clashes, including two children. The clashes stopped for several hours in the morning, though state media said there was still sporadic sniper fire.

Yet more from the Times of Israel:

Fighting in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near Sidon, Leb, is persisting despite a ceasefire meant to end a day of intense shootouts.

The warring factions say in a joint statement that they agreed to a ceasefire during a mediation meeting hosted by the Lebanese Shiite Amal movement and Hezbollah in Sidon. But local media say the fighting has continued.

A spokesperson from Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, tells AP that the groups are working to implement the truce.

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Eyewitness reveals details of Nusra Front founder in Syria

2016-12-26

[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Syrian writer Yahya Bader, has revealed, for the first time, information about Majid al-Majid, powerful al-Qaeda leader, as he knew him in person and dealt with him before knowing his identity and his death in Leb January 2014.

Bader explained that he since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, has worked in Istanbul in aid a relief. In 2012, one of his friends from Rihaniyah visited him with a Saudi man called "Abo Yusuf- Majid al-Majid" and asked him to help him in his work aimed to help the revolution.

Engineer Yahya detailed that he met Abo Yusuf 4 times, confirming he used to come from Beirut airport, but he did not know the name he used on Passport.

Bader confirmed that al-Majid was very generous in supporting the revolution, as he mentioned that he had been able to donate $ 20 million monthly to support the military groups.

"I thought he was supporting the Free Syrian Army
... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund...
, but I discovered that he supported foreign groups, which made me get away from him"

Activist Bader confirmed that al-Majid was the one who founded al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra front, "Fatah al-Islam
A Syrian-incubated al-Qaeda work-alike that they think can be turned off if no longer needed to keep the Lebanon pot stirred.
Front" in Syria.

Bader confirmed that al-Majid was tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
in December 26, 2013, and he was moved to the military hospital because of deterioration of his health, as he was suffering of renal failure an needed dialysis, and died in January 2014, in unexplained conditions, claimed to be due to his disease.

Majid al-Majid, was on Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's most-wanted-gunnies list.
He led the Abdullah Azzam Brigades
... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed...
that claimed a double suicide kaboom on the Iranian embassy in southern Beirut in November 2013, that left 23 people dead.

Abdullah Azzam Brigade based itself in the Ein el-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp, near Sidon. it was designated as a terrorist organization in 2012 by the US and freezed its assets.

Media reports said that Majid al-Majid had pledged allegiance to the leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front in Syria.

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Lebanese pop star turned militant denies role in clashes

2015-03-09

[RUDAW.NET] A former Lebanese pop star turned wanted Islamic Lion of Islam denied in an interview broadcast Sunday that he took part in deadly festivities with the military and said he wants to return to his "normal, natural life" with his friends and family.

The singer, Fadel Shaker, has been on the run since the bloody street battles between Sunni Moslem gunnies and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in the coastal city of Sidon. He faces charges of committing crimes against the military, and prosecutors have demanded the death penalty.

In an interview with Leb's LBC TV posted online Sunday, Shaker, clean-shaven and wearing a black suit, said he played no role in the festivities and never advocated bloodshed.

"I never participated at all in the battle," he said. "I never carried a weapon. Everybody knows that and the army knows it too."

LBC said the interview was filmed last week at the Ein el-Hilweh camp near Sidon.

The 2013 shootout, which pitted followers of hard-line Sunni holy man Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir against the Lebanese army, killed at least 18 soldiers and deepened sectarian tensions in Leb between Sunni and Shiite Moslems, who support opposing sides in the civil war in neighboring Syria.

The interview is Shaker's first public appearance since a video uploaded to YouTube on the second day of the street fighting in Sidon, and offers up a markedly different image of the former singer.

In the 2013 video, a bearded Shaker called his enemies pigs and dogs, and taunted the military, saying "we have two rotting corpses that we snatched from you yesterday" -- apparently referring to two slain soldiers.

Shaker became a pop star throughout the Arab work in 2002 with a smash hit. Almost 10 years later, he fell under the influence of al-Assir and shocked fans by turning up next to the hard-line holy man at rallies and later saying that he was giving up singing to become closer to God.

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