Hamas Arming Up in Lebanon Camps
The senior official representing the Fatah Palestinian faction in Lebanon Sultan Abul Ainein on Monday accused Hamas of arming up its partisans in refugee camps and agitating them against the mainstream group.
Abul Ainein told a press conference at the southern Rashidiyeh refugee camp that Hamas had killed 20 Fatah fighters during the Israeli attack on Gaza and shot 120 others "most of them in the knees," in an apparent attempt to cripple them.
Hamas, he added, also confiscated telephones of Fatah officials in Gaza and ordered them under house arrest.
"We reject firefights, even if we disagreed on national (Palestinian) topics," Abul Ainein said.
"Palestinian (refugee) camps are not kingdoms isolated from their Lebanese environs. They are not owned by either Fatah or Hamas. The Lebanese would not allow anyone to hurl the camps into disputes," he stressed.