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Ain al-Hilweh (Arabic: عين الحلوة, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein El Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but swelled to nearly 120,000, [ 1 ] as a result of influx of refugees from Syria since 2011.
Some 800 people displaced from Ein el-Hilweh are staying in shelters set up by the agency, Klaus said, including at schools in the area surrounding the camp that were supposed to go back into ...
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, however stated that four people were killed and 60 others wounded. Islamist factions in a troubled Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon say they ...
Earlier this summer, there were several days of street battles in the Ein el-Hilweh camp between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement and Islamist groups after Fatah accused the ...
The deadly clashes between Palestinian factions in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near the southern port city of Sidon have been going on since Sunday, though a tentative calm returned to the camp ...
Ain al-Hilweh is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Sidon District.It was established in 1948 after the Palestinian exodus of the First Arab–Israeli War. [6]In the 1980s, most Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon were dominated by Syrian-backed Palestinian groups.
Three days of clashes between Palestinian factions at the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp have pitted members of President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party against Islamist groups accused of gunning down ...
Osbat al-Ansar or Asbat an-Ansar (Arabic: عصبة الأنصار, romanized: ʿUṣbat al-ʾAnṣār, "League of the Partisans") is a Sunni fundamentalist group established in the early 1990s, with a primary base of operations in the Palestinian camp of Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, [2] which claims professing the Salafi form of Islam and the overthrow of the Lebanese-dominated ...