Iran Press/ Middle East: Six people were killed in clashes as a ceasefire fell apart on Wednesday evening in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian camp, the Palestinian Red Crescent’s Lebanon branch said.
The Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, on the outskirts of the southern city of Sidon, has been rocked by violence since last week.
Clashes intensified on Wednesday as a ceasefire fell apart in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon. Scores of civilians have been forced to flee to safer areas as multiple ceasefire agreements have failed to hold.
Despite the efforts of the Lebanese government and army, as well as Palestinian groups, to calm the situation in the Ein el-Hilweh camp, the clashes in this camp, which resumed on Saturday, continue.
Ein el-Hilweh camp was established in 1948 in the south of Lebanon and according to the statistics provided by the United Nations, it houses nearly 50,000 Palestinian refugees, and unofficial statistics put the number of these refugees at 70,000. 219
