...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...’s largest Paleostinian refugee camp have left at least five people dead and more than a dozen maimed, Lebanese state media and security officials say. Scores of civilians have been forced to flee to safer areas.
The latest deaths bring to 11 the number of people killed since the fighting erupted again in Ein el-Hilweh camp, near the southern port city of Sidon on September 7, despite multiple cease-fire agreements.
Stray bullets hit residential areas outside the camp, including several that struck a fire engine as firefighters were battling a blaze near an army post, the state-run National News Agency says. The blaze was not related to the camp fighting.
The fighting broke out last week after nearly a month of calm in Ein el-Hilweh between Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’ Fatah group and members of murderous Moslem Islamic factions.
Fatah and other allied factions had intended to crack down on suspects accused of killing a senior Fatah military official in the camp in late July.
NNA reports that among the five killed on Wednesday were three Fatah members. It says 15 people were also maimed in the festivities.
A top official with the Paleostinian murderous Moslem group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, Moussa Abu Marzouk, arrived in Beirut on Tuesday to push for an end to festivities with no success.