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Fighting intensifies in Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh camp despite truce talks

Fighters from the Palestinian Fatah group take position during clashes with rival armed groups in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh near the southern port city of Sidon. [Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded in renewed violence between rival groups in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, as stray bullets and shells hit residential areas in the country’s third-largest city Sidon.

The Ein el-Hilweh camp has been rocked by factional clashes since late July between the Palestinian mainstream movement Fatah and hardline groups. The first round left more than a dozen people dead.

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