Lebanon: Huge attack on Hezbollah operatives

(Beirut)  In what can only be deemed as audacious, somebody (looks at Israel) tampered with electronic communication devices used by Hezb-allah and on Tuesday 17^th September 2024 decided to detonate them. The initial strike targeted pagers which Hezb-allah started rolling out earlier this year, which it did so as to replace much higher tech Smart phones, which they believed could be compromised by others (looks again at Israel) and which they feel has been the reason how Israel has been able to successfully target Hezb-allah , Hamas and Iranian leaders. The use of pagers was seen as a cheap low tech solution to the problem above. But it appears that somebody (looks at Israel) was ahead of the curve here and set up a plan of action in which to doctor the order that Hezb-allah had placed for such and as we saw on Tuesday , at the push of a button somebody (Yup looks again at Israel) was able to detonate the newly supplied pagers resulting in the crippling of around 4000 Hezb-allah operatives and around 13 deaths

This was followed Wednesday (18th September 2024)  by a second wave of explosions , which this time targeted walkie talkies which ironically were also purchased at the same time resulting in another 20 deaths and around 450 injuries.

At a stroke somebody has managed to paralyse Hezb-allahs ability to communicate , which may explain why the IDF has started carrying out air attacks on Hezb-allah positions as of Thursday morning.  (19th September 2024)``

With the direction of IDF intelligence, the IAF struck approximately 30 Hezbollah launchers and terrorist infrastructure sites, containing approximately 150 launcher barrels that were ready to fire projectiles toward Israeli territory.

Additionally, the IDF struck Hezbollah… https://t.co/uqezvGXdZh

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 19, 2024

Lebanon: Huge Explosion hit Beirut docks

(Beirut)  A huge explosion has just taken place inside Beirut docks.

Mother of God.
Explosion in Beirut for unknown reasons.
I have never seen anything like this.
Friends in Beirut telling me they were in a supermarket far from there and still everything fell of them pic.twitter.com/TOvGzJkE98

— Tancredi Palmeri (@tancredipalmeri) August 4, 2020

NEW VIDEO: More footage of the explosion in Beirut. pic.twitter.com/QU1uNKzSNk

— UA News (@UrgentAlertNews) August 4, 2020

The official explanation been promoted is that it was a fire at a fireworks factory , but the next video shows a large number of exploding somethings ( Ammunition? )  and then in the middle of that fire something decides to goes...BANG

Video of the explosion that rocked #Beirut not long ago
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— Intel Air & Sea (@air_intel) August 4, 2020

Managed to locate that big building which takes the brunt of the explosion, so the fire must have been in the small building next to it:

 

Australia: lebanese brothers found guilty of plotting to blow Airliner.

(Sydney) Two Lebanese  brothers-51 year old Khaled and 34 year old Mahmoud Khayat- have now been found guilty of plotting to blow up a passenger plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder andto carrying out a lethal poisonous gas attack.

The men plotted with their brother, Tarek currdntly with Islamic State in Syria, and “the controller”, an unidentified person connected with the older brother to blow up an Etihad flight from Sydney to Abu Dhabi in 2017 using a bomb which had been smuggled into Australia from abroad and which had been packed inside a meat grinder for the flight. Thankfully the weight of the luggage was too heavy and the passenger- Amer Khayat a third brother of the two above- was forced to travel without his luggage to Beirut.  His brother Khaled stated to their ISIS controller that he was happy to take the bomb on board a flight , but his quest for infamy was denied when his as yet unknown ISIS controller in Australia denied him to walk down that path, saying he was needed  to help plan a poisonous gas attack.

Unfortunately for Allahs little helpers, Israeli intelligence tipped off the Australians and a fortnight after the failed bomb attempt, 5 homes were raided and the two brothers were picked up. The younger brother Amer  who claims he was duped by his brothers to go out with a bang was picked up in Beirut and where he was banged up until earlier on this week when the Lebanese found him not guilty, he is now hoping to return to return to Australia.

A fourth brother - Fadi Khayat - who resides in Beirut claims his brothers are innocent and that they have all been tainted by the west as guilty due to a fifth brother – 46 year old Tarek Khayat- who is a fully paid up AK47 carrying member of ISIS in Syria.

"None of my brothers are related to this. In my opinion, it's all because we've got a brother who was in Syria who was with ISIS, he is with ISIS, this is what complicating things is and making them appear guilty."

Yeah right.

Ramadan Death Count: Lebanon 03/06/19

(Tripoli) For some very strange reason Abdul Rahman Mabsout armed and on a motorbike rode around the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on monday evening murdering 2 policeman and 1 soldier for no reason in cold blood. He was traced to an apartment and when special forces kicked in the door, the dickhead uttered  something about Ali's snackbar and blew himself up. What a f-ing idiot.

Ramadan death toll stands at 1,153

Ramadan Death Count: Lebanon 29/05/19

(Saadiyat) This evening 2 geezers on a motorbike decided to lob a stun grenade into a Hezb-allah mosque. Naturally the long haired intolerant bastards who guard the place weren't happy and decided to empty their machine guns in the direction of the now departing idiots. Problem was, they missed, but they did managed to kill an innocent man who just happened to be walking by the place.

Ramadan death toll stands at 908

Lebanon: Hezb-allah says It wants the country to accept Iranian help including...Anti aircraft weapons.

(Beirut) Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaking on the Terrorists groups very own TV channel has berated the Lebanese people for not being like Syria and Iraq and accepting the help that Iran can afford them. Speaking this past Wednesday he stated that he is willing to ask Iran to provide the Lebanese Army with weapons and air defence systems:

“Will the Lebanese government dare to accept the Iranian proposals? Why should Lebanon remain afraid to cooperate with Iran?” Nasrallah said in a televised address marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution. In the military field, wouldn't people make an uproar and accuse Hizbullah of dragging Lebanon into war should the party shoot down an Israeli aircraft attacking Lebanon? I'm a friend of Iran and I'm willing to bring the Lebanese Army air defence systems from Iran to confront Israel,”

He sweetened that statement up by saying that it would be “very easy” for Iran to solve Lebanon's chronic electricity issue with the added bonus that Iran could also make a “huge transformation” in Lebanon's pharmaceutical industry that would “help slash the medical bill of the state and citizens.”

But his true nature for murder death kill soon broke through his thin veneer of Iranian inspired philanthropy, when he stated that if America started a war with Iran, that it wouldn't be fighting alone and that after defeating America, Israel would feel more fear and panic," he then finished off his speech to the nation by stating that claims that there are Israeli-Iranian or Saudi-Iranian wars or conflicts in the region are untrue. This is an American war on the Islamic Republic of Iran that has been running since 1979 and Saudi Arabia and some Gulf countries are tools in this war,"

Naturally in a country that is bankrupt, still suffering from the Lebanese civil war, never mind the kicking it received last time Hezb-allah decided to start a war without asking anybody , his speech hasn't gone down well with the non Hezb-allah crowd with cries of:

• Nasrallah is paving the way for an Iranian role in Lebanon.
• “Lebanon and the Lebanese have nothing to do with wars raged outside their borders. Why would we be involved in more futile wars that were nothing more than an act of expelling our children to emigrate.”
• “The arming of the Lebanese army is a decision of the state. If they really want to help, why not open the depots of arsenals and rockets you own and offer them to the army.
• Nasrallah might be a filthy little Iranian wannabe but even he knows why Lebanon cannot work with Iran. It's the same reason he did not appoint a member of Hezbollah to the health ministry. He even insisted to telling everyone this fact in his speech two days ago: "The health minister is not a member of our party and we have taken this decision for the sake of the country's interest".
• Just the same, it's also for the sake of the country's interest that Lebanon cannot work with Iran, and Nasrallah knows this. He also knows that can always rely on the stupidity of his followers to believe all his BS.
• Nasrallah: Iran Can Give Army Air Defence... the same Air Defences Iran is using to down Israeli fighter planes bombing its forces in Syria on a weekly basis?
• Terrorist nasrallah says 'Iran Can Give Army Air Defence'..Don't ask, just get them yourself and then gift them to the Lebanese army.
• We don't need to import more cancer into our country.
• Why doesn't this Iranian shia terrorist go back to his homeland and leave Lebanon to the real Lebanese.

My favourite however is this one:

• There is a deeper heinous crime being committed by Kizballah here, not only are they bypassing the states institutions by suggesting that the state depend on Iran but also in parallel stating they are the state. This is rejected by any red blooded Lebanese and anyone who still has an iota of respect for his birthplace if it is Lebanon. The bearded goat periodically makes his statements and refers to Iran as he has to since that's who pays him as their lapdog the rest of the nation does not and will accept that period. History will not be kind to him and others who sell out so cheaply.

Lebanon: Iran trying to change the constitution in its favour.

(Beirut) Lebanon used to be known as the Paris of the Middle East  where everybody lived in peace. That is until the PLO were kicked out of Jordan in 1971 after trying to take control there and relocated themselves in Lebanon. The first thing these peaceful victims did was start a war agaisnt the Lebanese Christians which blew up into the Lebanese civil war, until the Israelis invaded in 1982 in which to sort out the mess to the north which was resulting in numerous terrorist attacks being launched from Lebanon into Israel, this saw the PLO exiled to Tunisia and Iran moving in to take up the slack.

Anyway the politics of Lebanon which ensued a peaceful existence until the PLO sought asylum there, was a power sharing affair which afforded equality to all three faiths (Christian, Sunni and Shia Islam)

• The President, is a Maronite Christian.
• The Speaker of the Parliament, is a Shi'a Muslim.
• The Prime Minister, is a Sunni Muslim.

Iran having invested heavily in Lebanon via its puppet Hezb-allah feels that it should be afforded more sway in the running of things and since 2006 it has used overt pressure, death threats and murder in which to gain a seat or two in parliament. But it has now been revealed that since 2006 Iran has been demanding for the creation of an additional  vice-presidential seat - like that of the prime minister and the speaker –but to be occupied by a Shiite figure. At a stroke shifting the equal power setting away from equality towards Hezb-allah which we known means Tehran.

Lebanon: UN Envoy moans that Hezb-allah won't let them inspect those tunnels they dug

(Beirut) For years Israel has complained that the UN buffer forces between Israel and Lebanon are just as effective as a chocolate fire-guard. Well not really, whilst happy to bemoan the Jews for anything the Lebanese find fault with:

1) Building a border fence inside Israel

2) There are no tunnels between the two countries 

3) Israel may be planning to attack Lebanon

4) Israel has removed barbed wire from its own area.

5) For cutting down trees inside...Israel 

It has failed to do its job inside Lebanon in keeping Hezballah away from the border. Well today 

Nikolay Mladenov The United Nations' Mideast envoy says peacekeepers in Lebanon have not been given access to tunnels stretching into Israel. Get that the UN itself admits it has failed to do the job it is meant to do and then the political elites complain about how the US and Israel have cut funding to the polarised and biased UN.

Israel: Hezb-allah attack tunnel flooded with concrete.

(Jerusalem)  Today the IDF set about ensuring that the attack tunnels that Hezb-allah, The UN and the Lebanese claim don't exist cannot be used to launch terrorist attacks inside Israel.

Funny enough the tunnels all centred around the Israeli town of Metula which just happens to be inside a salient of Israel land that juts into Lebanon. No doubt the Hezb-allah agenda was to cut the town off from Israel for the time it would take for the IDF to take it back and ensure that by using those willing to die for the cause, inflict such a cost to the Israelis that they would retreat from the area and effectively hand it over to the Lebanese. The IDF knowing of the blood thirsty plans of the followers of the religion of peace, know fully well that they couldn't destroy the tunnels using explosives without destroying their own concrete barrier set in place, so they filled the tunnel with fast setting concrete, which was filmed pouring out of a so called chicken factory built right next to the Israel border wall.

Funny how the UN, Lebanon and Hezb-allah have remained ever so silent on how Israeli concrete has been seen pouring out onto the streets of Lebanon out of the entrance to a tunnel they claim doesn't exist......oh look squirrel!

Lebanon:Actress posing as rape victim, gets abused for being a ...victim

(Beirut) Women’s rights NGO Abaad, in partnership with the Lebanese  office For Women Affairs and the National Commission for Lebanese Women, and with the financial support of the Dutch Embassy in Lebanon, the British Embassy in Lebanon and the Norwegian People Aid, and a number of partners and allies, has launched the “#ShameOnWho?” nationwide campaign. Founder & Director of ABAAD.Ghida Anani, described this as:

"The aim of this campaign is to press for tougher sanctions and accelerate trials against rapists, in cases of sexual violence and rape in particular, and to change social perceptions that stigmatize and shame female rape victims, pushing them to cover up the crime. It also aims to create a supportive public opinion that condemns the act of rape as a crime punishable by a deterrent punishment"

The campaign  included a video of a social experiment that had been conducted, in more than one area of  Lebanon, in which to observe the behaviours and reactions of people who were presented with a female actress playing the part of a rape victim.The majority of people who she bumped into blamed the victim, accusing her of instigating the rape and “running loose,” with few people asking about the rapist. This behaviour reflects the negative perception and attitudes of the Lebanese society towards rape victims.

Ramadan Death Count: Lebanon: 24/05/18

(Beirut) A soldier in the Lebanese Army was killed and several others wounded in clashes Tuesday in the northern city of Tripoli. Apparently the Army were chasing down men under arrest warrants, however they were ambushed which resulted in a number of military personnel being injured of which Ali Mustafa, later succumbing to his wounds.

Ibrahim Kokolaki has been arrested for his involvement in the attack, however his sidekick Jihad Baltaji is still on the run.

Ramadan death toll stands at 154.

Lebanon: Hezb-allah strong arms opponents over next months General election.

(Beirut)  In just under a fortnights time (May 6th) Lebanon will go to the polls in which to elect a new parliament and Hezb-allah the pro Iranian puppet in country has already started throwing its weight around in which to ensure that by hook, crook and the odd bout of intimidation they increase their presence on the political front. Which kind of explains Mohamed al-Amin who is an independent Lebanese Shiite candidate running on an anti-Hezbollah platform as is his father Ali al-Amin, within the past few weeks both have been physically attacked by Hezb-allah goons and ended up in hospital.

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صورة جديدة للمرشح #علي_الامين من المستشفى وهو حالياً يخضع لفحوصات طبية pic.twitter.com/Y0ugtzjtbl

— محمد العاصي|M.alassi (@mohamad_alassi) April 22, 2018

Last month, an election candidate in the city of Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, accused Hezbollah of framing him on drug charges and shooting at his driver. The candidate, Abbas Al Jawhari, has since withdrawn from the race.

Ironically Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has stated that Hezbollah considers combating corruption a priority as their main rallying call. (Other than death to Israel that is)

Funny how the very people who love to exclaim 'it is the will of Allah' in which to excuse acts of violence , have no problem subscribing to the fists of man in which to intimidate their way into power.

Lebanon: Hezbollah terrorist blows himself up at home.

(Sidon)  Police in Lebanon have reported that Hezb-allah terrorist Bilal Hassan was killed in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon when the grenade cartridge for a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher he was holding decided to go boom. As this is Lebanon , Police only got to enter the crime scene after Hezb-allah terrorists inspected it first.

Israel: Builds border wall with Lebanon, Beirut not happy

(Beirut)  For years terrorists have traversed the border between Lebanon and Israel in which to cause mischief inside the Jewish state. In 1948 Lebanon invaded Israel when it was formed in which to destroy the fledgling state. After the 6 day war in 1967 and the Yom Kippur war in 1971, the Arabs realizing that they lost every time at full scale symmetrical war against the IDF, hit upon the idea of asymmetrical warfare, (Terrorism) which they carried out on a regular basis against the civilian population of Northern Israel.  That was until 1982, when Israel invaded Lebanon with an aim to stop these murderous attacks. After kicking out the PLO, the Israelis retreated back inside Israel after setting up a buffer zone within Lebanon and there they remained until they left in 2000. As is the way of the Arab when it comes to Israel any concession from a Jew is seen as a weakness and must be taken advantage of.  Which is why Hezb-allah has no problem attacking Israel, however after it invaded Israel in 2005 with an aim to bolster its public image , saw Israel invade the country again. the cost to Hezballah was high over 1000 dead in 11 days, contrast that with the Syrian civil war where in 5 years the terrorist group have lost around 2000 thugs.

The conflict inside Syria has now turned in favour of the Government and an end maybe in sight. With that in mind Hexballah has started thinking about the future , it can only exist if it has an enemy and who better than the jew to pick a fight with. Which kind of explains the rash of recent Israeli air-strikes inside Syria on Hezb-allah arms shipments in which to prevent the Iranian puppet from receiving advanced weaponry in which to secure its murderous future. 

Israel knowing this has implemented a multi layered plan in which to mitigate as much Hezb-allah mischief as it can, One layer consists of building a solid concrete wall inside Israel on its border with Lebanon. However as they are dealing with irrational bigots, the Lebanese have seen this as an act of war with the  the Superior Defence Council of Lebanon, issuing instructions to the military to face any Israeli aggression, including that of preventing construction of a Wall along the southern border,

Get that, Israel is building a wall inside its own borders in which to stop terrorists from entering the country from Lebanon and the Lebanese claim it is an act of war. That sums up the victim hood mentality of the intolerant Arab and why there will never be peace in the region as long as insist on setting the agenda for peace.

Lebanon: Israel Blamed After Car Bomb Wounds Hamas terrrorist

(Sidon) Mohamed Hamdan,also known as Abu Hamza, the  local Hamas rep in the Sidon area has been hurt in a bomb blast . A Lebanese military source speaking to the media stated:

"A bomb placed in a BMW in Sidon detonated, wounding Hamas official Mohammed Hamdan,"

Images posted on social media and used by Lebanese TV show a mangled car, a large fire and black smoke rising above the city. A medical source at the scene stated that Hamdan suffered serious wounds to his legs while opening the door to his car, and was transported to hospital.

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Hamas Official Reportedly Targeted in Car Explosion in Southern Lebanonhttps://t.co/a15jE1rRuA pic.twitter.com/ou1AQlr3YD

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) January 14, 2018

Whilst nobody  has claimed responsibility for the attack. al-Manar television, run by the Lebanese Terrorist group, Hezbollah  reported he was an important person within the group with a security role and that he was being tracked by Israel. Both Hamas and Fatah are saying the same thing.

However the thing not been mentioned is not only is there a dog eat dog scenario within the terrorist ranks of Hamas and Hezballah where the use of' Israel did it'  is used to excuse the killing of political rivals, also just a few miles away is the  Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp which is supposed to be self policed and as this is the Middle East means it is a free for all , which kind of explains why the Lebanese have been building a wall around it , in which to spare the people of Sidon their violent temperament, which has seen shoot out after shoot out where somebody new tries to be king of the hill. As per usual rather than address the situation, its so much easier to blame the jew.

Lebanon: Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigns , blames Iran/Hezb-allah political pressure as the reason why

(Beirut) Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has resigned during a trip to Saudi Arabia In a televised address from Riyadh, Hariri attacked Iran and its puppet Hezbollah over their meddling in Arab affairs

"The evil that Iran spreads in the region will backfire on it,"

His surprise resignation is expected to sharply raise tensions in the country. In his speech, he stated that he feared for his life and that the atmosphere in the country is similar to the one that existed before his father, the late prime minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in 2005 by Hezbollah. 

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Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces resignation https://t.co/QoFGOmAiPp

— The Daily Star (@DailyStarLeb) November 4, 2017

Funny enough this comes days after the Lebanese President 'Michel Aoun' made Hariri junior appoint an ambassador to Syria, (the first since the cedar revolution)  after  stating that in the next war between Israel and Lebanon, Israel would lose and hours after Iran stated it vows to protect Lebanon's stability

Lebanon: Football rivalry in Refugee camp sees 1 killed , 5 injured.

(Sidon)  A football match in a refugee camp in Lebanon saw a fistfight disagreement turn deadly when somebody decided to bring a gun to the party.

The match at the Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp between al-Ansar and al-Nahda fottball teams erupted into  violence at the camp's Jihad al-Wazir Stadium when al-Nahda won 1.0, The dead man has been named as  Mohammed Slim.

The Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp is something of a wild west zone as Lebanese Police and Army units are forbidden from entering , thus in such a Petri dish of anarchy, the camp has become a hotbed for all sorts of radical idiots .  With such limited options in addressing the situation the Lebanese decided to build a concrete wall around the camp in 2016, resulting (as they always do) cries of racism and such from the most racist bigots going, who would have no problem slitting your throat if they found out you didn't belong to their creed of Islam. 

However besides all the allegations of racism, just like a similar wall across the border in Israel, lawlessness in the camp appears to have slowed down with the near completion of the wall.

Lebanon has just received a load of Bradley IFVs from the US

(Beirut) Yesterday, eight M2A2s (Bradley Infantry fighting Vehicles) were landed at the port of Beirut in Lebanon. The armoured vehicles are part of a total order of 32 Bradleys which the US is selling to the Lebanese Government. The acquisition of these much more modern IFVs, which have come fitted out with electro-optical and thermal imaging sensors, meaning that the vehicles will be able to help monitor Lebanon’s tense border with Syria and provide more accurate fire support for friendly troops at night.

The only problem here is, Hezbollah has already been seen operating inside Syria with previous US arm shipments made to the Lebanese (which naturally was denied by Beirut)...

... and it will allow Iran (and I suppose Russia as well) to inspect the strength and weaknesses of a vehicle still in service with the US Army, likewise with the electro-optical and thermal imaging sensors. However, it's not just M2A2s the US has handed over. The US Ambassador Elizabeth Richard gave a speech before handing the keys to the vehicles over to the Lebanese Army, and she stated exactly what the US had handed over to Lebanon these past 12 months:

• 40 M198 howitzers
• 50 armoured Humvees
• an armed Cessna aircraft with hellfire missiles
• 55 mortar systems
• 50 Mark-19 automatic grenade launchers
• 1,100 machine guns, including 800 .50 calibre machine guns
• 4,000 M4 rifles
• over half a million rounds of ammunition
• 320 night vision devices and thermal sights
• 360 secure communication radios

The Bradley was designed specifically for reconnaissance and has a second mission of being able to transport a squad of infantry. It is designed to be highly maneuverable and to be fast enough to keep up with heavy armor during any military advance. The M2A2 has a crew of three: a commander, a gunner and a driver, as well as being able to carry six fully equipped soldiers.

It comes armed with a 25 mm cannon which fires up to 200 rounds per minute and is accurate up to 2,500 m. It can also be armed with two BGM-71 TOW wire-guided missiles which are held in a rectangular compartment on the left side of the turret and are capable of destroying most tanks out to a maximum range of 3,750 m. The Bradley also carries a coaxial 7.62 mm medium machine gun, located to the right of the 25 mm chain gun.

The M2A2 has an improved 600 horsepower (447 kW) engine and improved armour (passive and with the ability to mount explosive reactive armour). The new armour protects the Bradley against 30 mm APDS rounds and RPGs (or similar anti-armour weapons). Currently, the US operates the M2A3 which, to be honest, is a much more advanced iteration of the M2A2, and even those are now being upgraded again.

Lebanon: 5 idiots blow themselves up during raid by the army on refugee camp

(Beirut) A search by Lebanese troops on a couple of refugee camps in the town of Arsal for arms and ammunition saw 5 idiots wearing suicide vests blow themselves up wounding several troops.

In the first attack, three soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his suicide belt near them. Three other men wearing suicide vests blew themselves up in the same camp, while others detonated an explosive device. A military explosives expert defused four other devices. At the al-Qariya camp, a fifth suicide bomber blew himself up, wounding no one. Four soldiers were wounded when a hand grenade was tossed at the troops. Over a hundred people were arrested during the raids.

Lebanon: 5 day Gunfight in Palestinian refugee camp sees 10 dead, 30 injured.

(Sidon) The death toll after five days of clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon rose to 10 on Tuesday. Clashes erupted  late on Friday as Palestinian factions participating in a joint security force begun deploying throughout the area in the southern city of Sidon. They came under fire from a local Islamic extremist group , prompting clashes which have killed  10 people and wounded at least 30 more.

   Clashes rock Ain al-Hilweh: watch video:

Established in 1948 Ein al-Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but that swelled to nearly 120,000, as a result of the influx of refugees escaping Syria . Ein al-Hilweh is home to multiple armed factions, and has been plagued by intermittent clashes between them as well as against smaller extremist groups. Lebanon’s army does not enter Palestinian refugee camps, where security is managed by joint committees of Palestinian factions.