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Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/20_05_03/art4.asp
Intra-Palestinian Fighting in Lebanon Could Spread
(Beirut Daily Star) - Alia Ibrahim Both Fatah and the Islamist groups involved in the recent fighting in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh are well aware that neither is strong enough to annul the other, says Nizar Hamzeh, a political science professor at the American University of Beirut. "They know they have to find a way to coexist and share power." Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization has been in control of the camps until recently. "But things have changed dramatically over the last 10 years. The camps have witnessed the rise of Palestinian Islamist groups," Hamzeh said, which according to him are in control of different parts of the camp.