Hamas Says Won’t Let Lebanon Refugee Camp Turn Into Battlefield

Date: 18 December 2021 - 21:40

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GAZA (Dispatches) – Head of Hamas Political Bureau Abroad Khaled Meshal says the Palestinian resistance movement respects Lebanon’s sovereignty and will not allow Palestinian refugee camps there to turn into a battlefield. A deadly shooting occurred at the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Shemali, outside the Lebanese port city of Tyre, on December 12, when people had gathered at the funeral procession of a member of the resistance movement who lost his life in a huge blast at the same camp two days earlier. The shooting claimed the lives of three Palestinians and according to Hamas official Raafat al-Murra at the time, suspected gunmen from the West Bank-based rival Fatah movement “shot at the funeral procession” and killed three Hamas members. He further told AFP that six other people were also injured in the shooting.