Palestinian gunmen try to calm angry protesters at the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in June

LEBANON (Ma’an) — A Fatah official in Lebanon was seriously wounded on Thursday after he was shot several times in a Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanese press reported.

Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star said a gunman wearing a balaclava shot Imad al-Saadi with an automatic rifle in Ein al-Hilweh camp.

Al-Saadi was taken to hospital with head injuries, a Palestinian journalist in Lebanon said.

The refugee camp in south Lebanon was put on military alert after the shooting, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation said.

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon have long suffered discrimination and clashes broke out in Palestinian camps in June, which officials blamed on Islamist groups.

(www.maannews.net / 01.11.2012)