One killed in Lebanon’s biggest Palestinian camp: state media

Fighters of the Palestinian Fatah movement man a position during clashes with Islamist militants at the the Ain el-Helweh camp. (File/AFP)

• Young man was “the target of an assassination operation"

BEIRUT: The brother of a wanted Islamist was killed inside Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday, state media said.
A young man who was “the target of an assassination operation inside the Ain Al-Helweh camp died after sustaining serious wounds,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
“He is the brother of a wanted Islamist who does not belong to any faction in the camp,” the news agency added.
The camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon was rocked by deadly clashes earlier this year that pitted members of president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement, which controls the camp, against hard-line Islamist militants.
Hamas, the Islamist group which carried out brutal attacks on Israel from Gaza on October 7, was not involved in the fighting.
Last month, Palestinian fighters agreed a cease-fire after more than a week of deadly violence.
In late July, five days of fighting in the camp killed 13 people and wounded dozens.
Ain Al-Helweh is home to more than 54,000 registered refugees and thousands of Palestinians who joined them in recent years fleeing the civil war in neighboring Syria.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the camps and leaves the Palestinian factions to handle security.