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/ 10 October 2007
Dozens of families, many of them empty-handed, returned on Wednesday to a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that was the scene of 15 weeks of fierce battles between the army and Islamist militants. Buses and mini-vans hired by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency picked up the first families from the Beddawi refugee camp.
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/ 2 September 2007
At least 20 Islamist militants and two Lebanese soldiers were killed on Sunday in a battle near a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, a security source said. The Fatah al-Islam militants had been attempting to flee the Nahr al-Bared camp, where they have been battling the army for more than three months.
The Lebanese army resumed its air raids and shelling of militants holed up at Nahr al-Bared on Saturday after evacuating the last remaining civilians from the battered refugee camp. Helicopters carried out repeated raids dropping 250kg and 400kg bombs on the small area still controlled by the al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militants.
The families of Islamist fighters besieged in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon were evacuated by the army on Friday, opening the way for a possible final military assault. The military agreed to a temporary truce on Friday with the Fatah al-Islam fighters to allow the civilians to leave the camp.
The Lebanese army shelled al-Qaeda-inspired militants cornered in small parts of a Palestinian refugee camp on Thursday and security sources said two more soldiers were killed in the fighting. They said one soldier was killed on Wednesday and the body of another was pulled from rubble in Nahr al-Bared camp, raising the army toll to 111 dead.
Two Lebanese soldiers died overnight in a booby-trapped building at a Palestinian refugee camp where fighting with Islamist militants has lasted for two months. The fighting has cost the lives of at least 230 people, including 109 soldiers, and is the worst internal violence to hit Lebanon since the civil war ended 17 years ago.
Al-Qaeda-inspired militants killed four Lebanese soldiers on Thursday in fierce battles at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon, security sources said. They said another nine soldiers were wounded in the Nahr al-Bared camp fighting that began in the early morning after Fatah al-Islam snipers shot dead two soldiers.
About 160 Palestinians fled a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday as the Lebanese army prepared to launch a final assault against al-Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside. Troops have been battling Fatah al-Islam fighters at Nahr al-Bared for nearly eight weeks.
An uneasy calm settled over a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the Lebanese army declared victory in 33 days of fighting against al-Qaeda-inspired militants. The battle for Nahr al-Bared camp in which 172 people were killed was Lebanon’s worst outbreak of internal violence since a 1975 to 1990 civil war.
Lebanese commandos have blown up the home of the Islamist militia chief in a besieged refugee camp where fighting flared again on Tuesday in the fourth week of a deadly stand-off. Clouds of white smoke billowed into the sky as the army shelled Fatah al-Islam positions in the Nahr al-Bared camp, the epicentre of the deadliest fighting in decades.
Lebanese troops bombarded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire on Monday, pressing ahead with an assault to crush al-Qaeda-inspired militants dug in there. But after 23 days of often ferocious fighting at the Nahr al-Bared camp, the army did not appear any closer to forcing the Fatah al-Islam group to surrender.
Five Lebanese soldiers were killed on Saturday in the latest bout of heavy fighting against al-Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, a military source said. At least 125 people, including 53 soldiers and 42 militants, have been killed since the fighting began on May 20, making it Lebanon’s worst internal violence since the 1975/1990 civil war.
Lebanese troops shelled al-Qaeda-inspired militants in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, almost three weeks after fighting broke out. The camp, short of food, water and electricity, has been abandoned by most of its 40 000 residents.
Lebanese troops pounded al-Qaeda-inspired militants dug in at a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Friday after the gunmen refused demands they give themselves up. Artillery and tanks blasted several areas of the squalid Nahr al-Bared camp, where Fatah al-Islam fighters have shown stiff resistance in nearly three weeks of often ferocious battles.
Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants fought sporadically at a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday and a Palestinian force took up positions to defuse tension at another camp in the south. Soldiers fired artillery at the Nahr al-Bared camp overnight as the army tightened its grip around militants.
Lebanese troops directed artillery and tank barrages at al-Qaeda-inspired militants dug in at a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday, the third day of an assault to crush the gunmen. After 12 days of sporadic shelling, the army on Friday attacked Fatah al-Islam positions with the declared aim of wiping out the militants.
Fighting erupted again on Friday between troops besieging a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon and Islamist militants holed up inside, as the stand-off entered its 13th day. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the fire fight at Nahr al-Bared, located on the Mediterranean coast 90km north of the capital, Beirut.
Senior officials in the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hamas were on Saturday trying to broker an end to the bloody siege of a Lebanese refugee camp, which began last week when the Lebanese army engaged members of Fatah al-Islam, an al-Qaeda-inspired group, after a bank robbery in the city of Tripoli.
Lebanese troops trying to flush out Islamist militants shelled a Palestinian refugee camp for a third day on Tuesday before a fragile truce took hold, allowing aid trucks to reach civilians trapped there. Heavy fighting at Nahr al-Bared camp near the northern city of Tripoli resumed at dawn and subsided only in the afternoon.
Gun battles raged between Lebanese troops and Islamist militiamen on Tuesday, with both sides vowing to pursue the fighting that has killed 58 people in the last three days. Black plumes of smoke billowed into the sky as troops fired tank shells and artillery at positions of al-Qaeda inspired militants from Fatah al-Islam.
Battles engulfed a Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon on Monday as the death toll from two days of fighting between the Lebanese army and al-Qaeda-inspired militants climbed to 71. Thick black smoke billowed from the Nahr al-Bared camp, home to 40 000 Palestinians.
Lebanese troops battled al-Qaeda-linked militants in northern Lebanon on Sunday and at least 11 people were killed, seven of them soldiers, security sources said. They said the fighting broke out between the Lebanese army and members of the Fatah al-Islam militant group after security forces raided homes in Tripoli to arrest suspects accused of robbing a bank.