Christian Science Monitor:
In a move to avoid a second deadly battle in a Palestinian refugee camp, some groups have taken a rare step away from Islamist militancy.
EIN eLHILWEH PALESTINIAN CAMP, Lebanon - Nearly 17 armed factions and 70,000 people are packed into this teeming Palestinian slum.
Militants patrol narrow passageways that connect cement and cinder-block dwellings overfilled with poor families. For months now they have coped with a violent feud between rival groups that has threatened to spill into an all-out battle similar to last year's conflict in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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In a move to avoid a second deadly battle in a Palestinian refugee camp, some groups have taken a rare step away from Islamist militancy.
EIN eLHILWEH PALESTINIAN CAMP, Lebanon - Nearly 17 armed factions and 70,000 people are packed into this teeming Palestinian slum.
Militants patrol narrow passageways that connect cement and cinder-block dwellings overfilled with poor families. For months now they have coped with a violent feud between rival groups that has threatened to spill into an all-out battle similar to last year's conflict in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
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