Palestinians Hand Over Wanted Men to Army as Beddawi Camp Road Reopened
The Palestinian factions at the al-Beddawi refugee camp on Friday handed over to the Lebanese army a number of camp residents who were wanted over Thursday's clash in the Jabal al-Beddawi area, state-run National News Agency reported.
“The army had been imposing a security cordon around the camp since yesterday's evening,” NNA said.
The factions for their part had “placed barbed wire at the camp's entrance, blocking movement from and into the camp, after the Lebanese army erected a checkpoint near the camp's entrance,” the agency added.
Meanwhile, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) said the road to the camp was reopened after the Army Command “promised to ease the measures that have been taken at the camp's entrance.”
NNA had reported Thursday that the army arrested thirty Palestinians in connection with the clash that erupted a day earlier in the area.
Several people were wounded Wednesday when a personal dispute erupted into an armed clash between Lebanese and Palestinian young men in al-Beddawi.
According to NNA, the dispute between the young men started “inside a sports complex and an amusement park.”
“It then escalated into gunfire and a hand grenade was also hurled,” NNA said.
LBCI television said the clash erupted in the vicinity of the al-Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp, pitting young men from the Zeid and Shabban families.
“When the army intervened, one of the young men hurled a hand grenade at the troops, which prompted them to fire in the air and towards the man who threw the grenade,” LBCI added.
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