So far, 70 people have been killed in the Lebanese Army shelling of the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in Tripoli. The crisis began when an Islamist group, Fatah-al-Islam, raided a bank stealing thousands of dollars, killing three soldiers in the process.
Imagine what the Lebanese Army would do if, say, Fatah-al-Islam kidnapped soldiers and fired hundreds of rockets at Tripoli.
Smoke bellows from heavy shelling by the Lebanese army, at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el-Bared, during a clashes with fighters from the Fatah Islam militant group, in the northen city of Tripoli, Monday May 21, 2007. Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp Monday where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was holed up, pounding the camp with artillery a day after the worst eruption of violence since the end of the country’s 1975-90 civil war.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
Nahr el-Bared is administered by the UNRWA.
