Red Crescent: Man Shot Dead in Ain el-Hilweh
A masked gunman shot and killed a 25-year-old man Tuesday in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, a Red Crescent official said.
Mohammed Ismail died after the attacker shot him in the face and fled, the Red Crescent told Agence France Presse.
"An investigation is underway to find out the circumstances of this crime and intensive efforts are being made to identify the attacker and arrest him," Munir Maqdah, a Fatah official handling security at the camp, told AFP.
Ain el-Hilweh, on the outskirts of the southern port city of Sidon, is the biggest of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
The camps are considered extremely volatile places and a fertile breeding ground for extremist groups.
In recent months, Ain el-Hilweh has witnessed several clashes between Fatah and the mainly Sunni Jund al-Sham, an Islamist group.