Calm after clashes at Palestinian camp in Lebanon

(3 Aug 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Sidon , Lebanon - 03 August 2023 1. Skyline of Ain El-Helweh camp 2. Various of Lebanese army checkpoint at the entrance of the camp 3. Various of displaced in a mosque 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Sabbagh, Palestinian refugee: "We are fed up of all these things, we do not know what is the story behind it, the interest why sometime clashes go on and come down. We have children, look at this area, it is empty. Shops are closed, people are sitting at houses without even bread, they blocked the road in all directions, what shall we do? We are stranded despite we are behind the checkpoints (of the Lebanese army) and outside the camp, we have nothing to deal with this matter” 5. Various of damaged building due to shelling 6. Broken windows on the ground 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sheikh Ahmad Nader: “Since the beginning of the clashes the number of displaced has exceeded 2,000 people, we are trying to provide them with aid through the associations or through the donations of good people and through the efforts of the men of the mosques and especially the Mousalli mosque volunteers we are trying to make this place a safe transit place for the displaced where they will go later to a safer place” 8. Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance arriving at Al-Hamshari hospital 9. People at emergency admission hall 10. Wounded on stretcher 11.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr. Riad Abu AlAinain, Director of Al-Hamshari hospital: “Since the beginning of the clashes, we have received around 58 wounded, most of them medium and slight injuries, we did surgical operations to some serious conditions. The number of injuries increases when the clashes escalate. Inside the hospital the situation is normal despite we were subject at some point to rocket propelled shells where some people were injured near the hospital “ 12. Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics at hospital 13. Various of Lebanese army checkpoint STORYLINE: A cautious calm returned to Lebanon’s Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon Thursday after a night of renewed clashes. Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, which is home to about 50,000 people, has been rocked since Sunday by fierce battles between President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party and Islamist groups Jund al Sham and Shabab al Muslim. Fatah has accused the Islamists of gunning down Fatah military general Abu Ashraf al Armoushi in the camp on Sunday. The fighting has so far killed more than a dozen people, injured dozens more, and displaced thousands. In the city of Sidon, outside the camp’s borders, some 100 camp residents who had fled the clashes were sheltering in a nearby mosque on Thursday. Sheikh Ahmad Nader said around 2,000 people had sheltered at the mosque since the beginning of the clashes. "We are trying to provide them with aid through the associations or through the donations of good people and through the efforts of the men of the mosques," he told the Associated Press. Mohammed Sabbagh, an Ein el-Hilweh resident staying in the mosque with his family, expressed his frustration. “We are fed up of all these things,” he said, adding “We have children.” Even outside the camp, Sabbagh said, they feel trapped by the fighting. "Look at this area, it is empty. Shops are closed, people are sitting at houses without even bread, they blocked the road in all directions, what shall we do?" "Inside the hospital the situation is normal despite we were subject at some point to rocket propelled shells where some people were injured near the hospital," he said. AP Video shot by Fadi Tawil. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/a1e30ab2586f4585ab04d08ec941b7c0

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