http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/wo...gewanted=print
Quote:
TRIPOLI, Lebanon, May 21 — The confrontation between the Lebanese Army and Islamic militants at a Palestinian refugee camp continued unabated today, after an eruption of violence on Sunday that claimed at least 39 lives and left dozens injured.
Lebanese troops shelled locations within the Nahr al Bared camp on the northern outskirts of this city, which houses about 40,000 Palestinian refugees. Militants belonging to the Islamist group Fatah al-Islam shot back with heavy machine-gun fire.
Thick smoke rose above the city, and the taller buildings in the camp were visibly pockmarked by bullet holes.
During a two-hour ceasefire this afternoon, the Red Cross was allowed to evacuate 16 injured people from the camp. But the intense fighting resumed later in the day. Refugees caught in the fighting who fled the camp said there was growing anger that the shelling was being aimed at Palestinians.
Nine civilians were killed by shelling today, according to Reuters, adding to the 22 Lebanese soldiers and 17 militants killed in the fierce fighting on Sunday.
Witnesses said that militants belonging to Fatah al-Islam fired rocket-propelled grenades as well as machine guns today at army posts on the camp perimeter, according to Reuters.
The continuing violence is one of the most significant challenges to the Lebanese army since the end of Lebanon’s bloody civil war.
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Isn't there a UN force in Lebanon?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIFIL
I guess there is. Wonder what their mandate is regarding such violence.
Dozens slain as Lebanese Army Fights Islamics..
