 Militant Palestinians fought members of a Lebanese leftist party in a gun battle Sunday that left one man dead and three wounded outside a refugee camp, Lebanese security officials said.
The gunbattle between the Palestinian Jund al-Sham group and the Lebanese Nasserite Popular Organization took place on the fringe of the Ein el-Hilweh camp near the southern port city of Sidon. The camp is the largest of Lebanon's 12 refugee settlements for Palestinians.
| I believe "Ein el-Hilweh" is Arabic for "festering sore of the lower bowel." |
The disarmament of Palestinian factions in Lebanon was discussed last week when Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora met Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
| That worked well, didn't it? |
The Lebanese army, which maintains checkpoints outside the camp, did not intervene, witnesses said.
| "Eh! Let 'em kill each other. No skin off our collective fore." |
Lebanon's army does not enter the camp, which is home to about 75,000 Palestinian refugees, and their descendants, who were displaced by the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. |