Hamas accuses rival Fatah of deadly shooting in Lebanon camp

SIDON, Lebanon — Hamas officials buried 3 of their members Tuesday who were killed by gunfire successful a tense Palestinian exile campy successful confederate Lebanon days earlier. The militant radical accused members of a rival faction of the deadly shooting.

Ayman Shanaa, an authoritative with the militant group, told mourners that Fatah militia members were down the shootings, which helium called a “heinous and cowardly crime.”

There are tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees and their descendants successful Lebanon, astir surviving successful exile camps. Fatah is the governmental faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas rules the Gaza Strip.

The deadly unit took spot astatine a Hamas-organized ceremonial Sunday successful the Burj Shamali camp. Shanaa called it “a premeditated crime” that aims to undermine information and stableness successful the exile camps successful Lebanon.

The ceremonial was held successful the confederate metropolis of Sidon and attended by respective 1000 people, galore of whom raised the greenish Hamas flag.

Shanaa called for handing the perpetrators “known to all” to the Lebanese information agencies.

Lebanese information forces don’t run wrong astir 12 Palestinian exile camps scattered astir the Mediterranean country, wherever information is successful the hands of Palestinian factions who often vie for clout.

The unit started aft a bid of monolithic explosions successful Burj Shamali precocious Friday, which Lebanese officials said ignited successful an ammunition depot.

Hamas, which is almighty successful the camp, denied it was a weapons depot and said the explosions started with an electrical short-circuit successful a retention country for oxygen bottles.

One Hamas subordinate was killed successful the explosions. During his ceremonial connected Sunday, gunfire erupted leaving 3 radical dormant and respective injured.

The root of the shooting was not wide astatine the clip and Palestinian officials had antithetic accounts of what happened. Shanaa’s comments Tuesday were the astir nonstop nationalist accusation against Fatah, which had nary contiguous comment.

Tensions betwixt Palestinian factions successful Lebanon often crook into unit but are usually rapidly contained wrong the overcrowded camps.