(4 Jun 2007)
++Night Shots++
Ein el-Hilweh - 3 June 2007
1. Wide of camp: UPSOUND of firing
2. Entrance of camp: UPSOUND of firing
++Day Shots++
Ein el-Hilweh - 4 June 2007
3. Mid of smoke from fire on a Palestinian checkpoint
4. Mid of barb wire
5. Pan right of Lebanese army checkpoint
Ein el-Hilweh - 4 June 2007
6. Pan of street in Ein El-Hilweh camp
7. Damaged car
8. Wide of street
9. Mid of women
5. Wide of building damaged by a shell
6. Mid of hole in the side of building
7. Mid of damaged building
8. Mid of hole in wall
9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ahmad Shamieh, Shop owner:
"I am the owner of the Shamieh shop in Ein El-Hilweh and you can see the damage done to our shop and house, the bombs damaged the whole street."
10. People cleaning away wreckage
11. Various of people taking their belongings from their destroyed houses
12. Covered body inside ambulance
13. Mid of soldiers
Nahr el-Bared - 4 June 2007
14. Wide of city: UPSOUND of gunfire
15. Mid of buildings with pan to smoke coming out of building: UPSOUND of artillery
16. Wide of explosion in building: UPSOUND of artillery
17. Pan of buildings UPSOUND of gunfire
18. Wide of explosion in building: UPSOUND of artillery
19. Pan from scrub land to building with fire and black smoke pouring out
20. Wide of explosion in building: UPSOUND of artillery
STORYLINE:
Bomb explosions and machine gunfire rocked a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Monday after clashes between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three, police said.
The fighting began with militants from the group Jund al-Sham firing rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifle fire on Lebanese troops stationed outside the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp.
The clashes in southern Lebanon came as Lebanese troops pressed ahead with an offensive against another militant group, the al Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam, in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, located in the northern part of the country.
The fighting had erupted on and off since late Sunday at Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest refugee camp in this southern provincial capital, with clashes renewing on Monday morning.
Lebanese troops returned fire during the night time exchanges on the edge of the camp.
There was no official word on militant casualties from the fighting, which sent dozens of families from the camp fleeing to Sidon.
Lebanon's army pounded Islamic militant hideouts in a northern bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp on Monday as the military tried to crush the fighters deep inside who refuse to surrender.
Many in Lebanon believed the army would be able to crush the Fatah Islam militants inside the Nahr el-Bared camp quickly, but after three days of fierce battle using artillery and tanks, the troops continued to face strong resistance.
The relentless bombardment threatens to anger Palestinians in the country's other refugee camps, a possible recipe for spreading violence.
Earlier in the day, back at Nahr el-Bared, some 30 Palestinian and Lebanese women came from the nearby Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp to protest the army's shelling.
The Lebanese government repeated its demand for the militants in Nahr el-Bared to surrender, but Fatah Islam's deputy leader defied the call.
During the day, tanks and artillery pounded Fatah Islam positions on the northern edge of Nahr el-Bared, located on the outskirts of the northern Lebanese port city, sending up plumes of white and gray smoke.
A senior Lebanese army officer said nine Lebanese troops have been killed since Friday, and several others wounded.
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