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Clashes Renewed at Nahr Al-Bared Camp
Lebanese troops have pounded alleged al Qaeda-inspired fighters for the third day in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, witnesses say.
The latest battle inside Nahr al-Bared began at dawn on Tuesday. Medical sources were calling for the fighting to stop because they said there were dead and wounded on the streets.
At least 20 fighters, 32 soldiers and 27 civilians have been killed since fighting between the army and Fatah al-Islam fighters erupted early on Sunday, making it Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Fifty-five soldiers have also been wounded.
Bomb explosion
On Monday, a bomb exploded in a west Beirut shopping area even as the Lebanese army signalled it was ready for a truce with the Fatah al-Islam armed group.
The latest battle inside Nahr al-Bared began at dawn on Tuesday. Medical sources were calling for the fighting to stop because they said there were dead and wounded on the streets.
At least 20 fighters, 32 soldiers and 27 civilians have been killed since fighting between the army and Fatah al-Islam fighters erupted early on Sunday, making it Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Fifty-five soldiers have also been wounded.
Bomb explosion
On Monday, a bomb exploded in a west Beirut shopping area even as the Lebanese army signalled it was ready for a truce with the Fatah al-Islam armed group.
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Abu Salim Taha, a spokesman for Fatah al-Islam, said: "The army is not only opening fire on us. It is shelling blindly. If this continues, we will carry the battle outside the city of Tripoli."
Officials from the main Palestinian factions in Lebanon - which deny any links with Fatah al-Islam ? have offered Fouad Siniora, the prime minister, help in crushing the group.
Siniora's Western-backed government has been paralysed for months by feuding between pro-government and opposition factions.
- Source: Al-Jazeera.
For their part, Lebanese troops bombarded positions held by the fighters with tanks and heavy artillery earlier in the day.
But there were complaints that the shelling was affecting whole communities of Palestinians in the refugee camp in north Lebanon.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reported on Monday that 30,000 Palestinians living in Nahr al-Bared were running out of food, water and medicines as the refugee camp remained virtually under siege.
Bombardment
Sultan Aboul Aynan, the Lebanon chief of the mainstream Fatah movement from which Fatah al-Islam splintered off, called for a halt to the army's bombardment, warning that Palestinian civilians were paying the price for the actions of "a gang of outlaws".
Police said the 10kg bomb was placed under a car, setting ablaze several vehicles and damaging buildings.
It was the second such attack to hit Beirut in 24 hours. The first bomb blast, which took place in a Christian district on Sunday night, killed a 63-year-old woman and wounded 10 people.
Government offer
A government source said on Monday that the army was "ready to stop firing if the other side does the same".
The offer followed attempts by other Palestinian factions to broker a truce.
The representative of Islamic Jihad, Abu Ahmed Rifai, said Fatah al-Islam pledged to cease firing and withdraw from positions facing Lebanese troops.