Summary
Cautious calm prevailed in the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon Friday following the murder of a brother of a member of the Islamist Osbat al-Ansar. At around 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, explosions and heavy gunfire could be heard coming from inside the camp.
In March, Hussein's brother Khaled, a member of Osbat al-Ansar, allegedly shot and critically wounded Bilal al-Arqoub's son Youssef in the camp's Safsaf neighborhood, which is dominated largely by the camp's Islamist factions.
After the gunfire and explosions started Friday, units from the Lebanese Army cleared roads leading to the camp to allow residents to flee to nearby areas, fearing that the incident would escalate to full-fledged clashes, as has happened in Ain al-Hilweh in the past.
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