20 May 2007 - Tripoli, Lebanon - Lebanese tanks pounded the headquarters of a
group with suspected links to al Qaeda in a Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli Sunday after the
northern city's worst clashes in two decades killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants. And air strikes
continue in Gaza strip by Israeli forces as the Middle East begins its final plunge into war....
It begins!
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese troops blasted a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire again Monday, seeking to destroy a militant group with al-Qaida ties. The barrage smashed buildings and sent plumes of black smoke towering over the crowded camp on the Mediterranean.
The fierce, two-day battle has killed nearly 50 combatants and an unknown number of civilians, raising fears that Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war could spread in a country with an uneasy balancing act among various sects and factions.
Refugees in the Nahr el-Bared camp, on the outskirts of the northern port city of Tripoli, hid in their homes as fighting raged, and Palestinian officials in the camp said nine civilians were killed Monday. Reports from the camp could not be confirmed because officials and reporters could not get inside.
"There are many wounded. We're under siege. There is a shortage of bread, medicine and electricity. There are children under the rubble" of damaged buildings, Sana Abu Faraj, a resident of the camp, told Al-Jazeera television by cell phone.
All this is happening inside Lebanon right now.
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