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Protests in Lebanon Refugee Camps
Palestinians angered by the assault on the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon have set fire to car tyres at three other camps.
The protests at Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp, Rashidiyeh and Beddawi have raised fears of an uprising by Palestinians across the country.
Fatah said on Tuesday that refugees across Lebanon could rise up if the army continues shelling the camp in which fighters from the Fatah al-Islam group, which split from the mainstream group, are under siege.
"If the random shelling does not stop... there will be uprisings in all the camps in Lebanon," Sultan Abul Aynayn, the head of Fatah in the country, told the AFP news agency.
Major Palestinian factions, including the Fatah and Hamas, have distanced themselves from Fatah al-Islam and denounced the fighting, warning that it endangered Palestinian civilians.
The protests at Ain el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp, Rashidiyeh and Beddawi have raised fears of an uprising by Palestinians across the country.
Fatah said on Tuesday that refugees across Lebanon could rise up if the army continues shelling the camp in which fighters from the Fatah al-Islam group, which split from the mainstream group, are under siege.
"If the random shelling does not stop... there will be uprisings in all the camps in Lebanon," Sultan Abul Aynayn, the head of Fatah in the country, told the AFP news agency.
Major Palestinian factions, including the Fatah and Hamas, have distanced themselves from Fatah al-Islam and denounced the fighting, warning that it endangered Palestinian civilians.
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Lebanon is home to about 400,000 Palestinian refugees, half of whom live in 12 camps which remain outside the control of the Lebanese government under an arrangement reached four decades ago.
"This is just a small token of what might happen in all the Palestinian camps in Lebanon," he said at the camp on the northern outskirts of Tripoli about 10km south of Nahr al-Bared.
"No Palestinian or Palestinian faction in Lebanon will accept seeing the Palestinian people slaughtered in a collective punishment, as is happening in Nahr al-Bared," he added
Many demonstrators shouted they were "ready to be martyrs for Nahr al-Bared" as they burnt tyres in protest.
In Ain el-Helweh, near the southern port city of Sidon, protesters burnt tyres and blocked roads.
Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna visited the Beruj al-Barajni camp on Tuesday where he found anger at Fatah al-Islam for provoking the crisis.
"They are trying to drag the Palestinians into the war," one refugee told him. "They use the word Fatah, because it is related to Palestinians, and Islam because there is a campaign around the world against Islam."