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.
One killed in Lebanon’s biggest Palestinian camp: state media
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One killed in Lebanon’s biggest Palestinian camp: state media
- Young man was “the target of an assassination operation"
Syria says detained senior Daesh jihadist in Damascus
- The arrest came less than two weeks after a December 13 attack killed two US soldiers
DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested a senior Daesh group official in the Damascus region in a joint operation with a US-led international coalition, a security official said on Wednesday.
Taha Al-Zoubi, also known as Abu Omar Tabiya, an Daesh leader in Damascus, was detained with several of his men, General Ahmad Al-Dalati was reported as saying by state news agency SANA.
The arrest came less than two weeks after a December 13 attack killed two US soldiers and a US civilian that Washington said was carried out by a lone Daesh gunman in central Syria’s Palmyra.
“Our specialized units, in cooperation with the General Intelligence Directorate and and International Coalition forces, carried out a precise security operation targeting” an Daesh hideout, Dalati said.
On December 20, a Syria monitor said that five Daesh members were killed in US strikes in retaliation for the December 13 attack.
It was the first such incident since the overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar Assad in December last year, and Syrian authorities said the perpetrator was a security forces member who was due to be fired for his “extremist Islamist ideas.”
