Bomb Shakes Ain el-Hilweh

A bomb exploded in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh on Wednesday night near a Fatah movement base, causing material damage only, Palestinian security sources said.

The sources told As Safir daily that the bomb went off at 10:15 pm Wednesday in the Taytaba neighborhood, 50 meters from the Fatah offices and was followed but gunfire.

Head of the Palestinian Armed Struggle Col. Mahmoud Issa warned in remarks published Saturday that some members of the now defunct Fatah al-Islam militant network are trying to regroup to carry out “suspicious operations.”

Issa, who goes by the nom de guerre of al-Lino, said that Fatah al-Islam leader Osama al-Shehabi seems to have received orders to revive the terrorist group inside the camp.

But Palestinian Armed Struggle official Mounir Maqdah told Free Lebanon radio on Thursday that “there is no presence to Fatah al-Islam in any of the Palestinian camps.”