Senior 'palestinian' official shot dead in Lebanon

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A high-ranking military official from the Palestinian group Fatah was killed on Monday by gunmen in southern Lebanon, Lebanese state media said.

Brigadier General Jamil Zeidan died in hospital after unidentified assailants shot him in Ain El-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the National News Agency reported.

A senior Fatah official confirmed Zeidan's death to Reuters.

Shootings and armed clashes are not uncommon in the camp, which houses about 50,000 refugees. Fighters supporting the mainstream Fatah party often clash with militant Islamists.

Hostilities in the camp have increased as regional tensions rise, with violence spilling over from the civil war in neighboring Syria.

It's not going well for the region's trouble makers.

Being besieged in Syrian camps with hundreds starving, weapons shipments seized, Israel laying the smack down when they get ideas above their station (trying to grab a soldier's weapon), totally ostracised by Egypt, Iran pretending to be their friend but actually using their blood for Tehran's regional hegemony project...

They should try behaving for a bit and see how much better they get on with everyone.