Fatah Member Badly Injured in Ain el-Hilweh Shooting

A Fatah member was badly wounded after he was shot at in the southern refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh on Saturday night, An Nahar newspaper reported.

A Fatah official in the shantytown, Maher Shbayta, identified the wounded militant as Ayman al-Dajjani. He unveiled that Jund al-Sham member Ahmed Aa, opened fire on the man while he was driving in his vehicle in al-Fouqani street.

An Nahar said that al-Dajjani suffered wounds in his abdomen, chest and thighs and was taken to the Labib Medical Center in the port city of Sidon.

The incident led to tension in Ain el-Hilweh, it said. A joint Palestinian committee opened an investigation into the incident, the daily added.

Later in the day, a woman’s body was taken to the same center after the Civil Defense Department and the Red Cross retrieved it from the sea off the coastal town of al-Rmaileh in the Shouf.