One person was
killed and others injured late on Friday in a Palestinian refugee camp
in south Lebanon after a dispute erupted into gunfire between rival
political groups for the second time this week, Reuters witnesses and
state media said. The
outbreak of violence comes after two men were shot dead in the same camp
on Monday because of tensions between members of the mainstream
Palestinian faction Fatah and a hardline Islamist group. Fatah
member Hussein Othman was killed in Friday's fighting between groups of
armed men from rival factions, Lebanon's National News Agency said. Gunfire erupted again Saturday morning after having died down during Friday night, a Reuters witness said. Ain
al-Hilweh camp, near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, has
regularly seen factional disputes spiral into deadly violence. Lebanon's Palestinian camps mainly fall outside the jurisdiction of the Lebanese security services.
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