Three individuals had been killed at a Hamas funeral in a refugee camp in Lebanon yesterday, in response to the Palestinian Islamist group.
The three males died when fighters affiliated with the rival Fatah group opened fire on a funeral procession within the Burj al-Shemali camp in southern Lebanon. One other 10 individuals had been injured within the assault. The funeral was for a Hamas member, the Hamas-affiliated Safa information outlet reported.
The incident adopted a Dec. 10 explosion at a Hamas constructing within the camp, which hosts Palestinian refugees. The funeral was for one of many victims of the explosion.
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political and navy group. It controls the Gaza Strip internally, whereas the internationally acknowledged Palestinian Authority administers the West Financial institution together with the Israeli navy. Fatah, the most important political faction throughout the Palestinian Authority, denied any function within the capturing, Reuters reported.
Hamas and Fatah have been political rivals for the reason that 2007 civil warfare within the Palestinian territories led to the political break up between the West Financial institution and Gaza. Egypt has been working to mend ties between the 2.
Greater than 100,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants stay in Lebanon, the place they arrived throughout and after the primary Arab-Israeli warfare in 1947 and 1948. A number of different armed Palestinian groups additionally function in Lebanon.
