A member of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement shot and wounded an official of a pro-Syrian faction Saturday in a refugee camp of south Lebanon, Palestinian sources said.
| Yummy popcorn. More, anyone? |
According to the report, Fatah member Hussein Seyyed burst stormed into offices in the Ain el-Hellhole Hilweh camp to demanded the immediate release of his son, was being questioned on suspicions of rape.
| "Rape? You call that a crime 'round here? Let 'im go!" |
Seyyed whipped out a rod and began shooting when his demands were not met, wounding Abed Makdah, an official of the pro-Syrian group Al Saiqa and the head of a committee holding the rape suspect. Seyyed's son was also wounded, it was reported.
"Th-th-th-on! I'm th-orry!"
"Oh, father! What will I ever tell the boys back at the Fatah camp?" |
Tensions have risen in the camp since Thursday when four people were wounded in a dispute between a member of a small Islamist group and Fatah members. Some 367,000 Palestinians live in Lebanon, more than half in a dozen terrorist camps dotted around the country. |