Sidon: At least five people were killed in fighting on Monday between Palestinian factions in a refugee camp near Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon, local sources said.
They said the fighting broke out between fighters from a group originally linked to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group and a rival militant organisation.
It was not immediately clear what triggered the clashes in the Mieh Mieh camp, in which at least 10 people were wounded.
Fatah and a range of Islamist factions compete for influence in Mieh Mieh and the nearby Ain Al Hilweh, two of the 12 Palestinian camps in Lebanon that are home to more than 200,000 registered refugees.
Tensions in the camps and in Lebanon as a whole have been exacerbated by the conflict in neighbouring Syria. More than a million Syrian refugees have poured into Lebanon along with many Palestinians, displaced by three years of war.
