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'Unprovoked aggression'

Fighting erupted on Sunday morning after security forces raided a building in Tripoli to arrest suspects in a bank robbery.

After resisting arrest, militants said to belong to Fatah Islam then attacked army posts at the entrances to the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, which is home to some 30,000 displaced Palestinians.

Several hours later a large force of Lebanese troops hit back at Fatah Islam, storming the building on the outskirts of Tripoli and killing a number of militants.

Fatah Islam spokesmen portrayed the fighting as an unprovoked aggression by the Lebanese army.

"The problem began with repeated arrests of our brothers in Tripoli. We've always defended Sunnis in Lebanon," a spokesman called Abu Salim told al-Jazeera TV.

Some 15 fighters from the radical Fatah Islam group and 23 Lebanese soldiers died in intense battles, reports said.

Fatah Islam, said to be linked to al-Qaeda, killed some 15 soldiers in clashes around the Nahr el-Bared camp.

Soldiers then bombarded militants in the camp and fought battles at a house in Tripoli used as a base by fighters.

Two civilians were killed and 40 were injured, AFP news agency reported. A Lebanese army spokesman said another 27 soldiers were injured.

Lebanon is home to more than 350,000 Palestinian refugees, many of whom fled their homes when Israel was created in 1948.

The military is banned from entering the Nahr el-Bared camp under a 38-year-old deal.

Sunday's violence was the bloodiest internal fighting Lebanon has seen since the end of its civil war more than 15 years ago.

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AL JAZEERA ENGLISH

Fighting broke out between the army and Fatah al-Islam on Sunday morning after security forces raided homes in Tripoli to arrest suspects accused of a bank robbery.

A Lebanese military source said the army blasted the camp at Nahr al-Bared with tank fire.

At least three members of Fatah al-Islam were killed in central Tripoli after the army stormed a building in which they were hiding.

More than 40 wounded people contacted Al Jazeera saying they were not able to leave their homes to reach hospitals.

Witnesses reported hearing exchanges of fire from assault rifles and machine guns, as well as rocket explosions.

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Fighting continues at Lebanon camp

Lebanese troops have continued to battle an armed Palestinian group at a refugee camp in northern Lebanon for the second straight day, security sources have said.

On Monday, sources said the military had tightened their grip around the Nahr al-Bared camp and were shelling positions held by the Fatah al-Islam group at the entrances of the camp.

Sources also said the Lebanese army was holding back from entering the coastal camp, which is home to some 40,000 Palestinian refugees, in line with a 1969 Arab agreement banning the Lebanese army from entering any of the country's 12 refugee centres.

Witnesses said Fatah al-Islam fighters were firing back on army positions.
At least eight civilians were killed and 20 wounded on Monday in Lebanese army shelling, Palestinian sources inside the camp said.

About 50 people died in fighting on Sunday between the Lebanese military and Fatah al-Islam fighters.

Police said the area had witnessed a relatively calm night after Sunday's day-long gun battles.

Abu Hisham Laila, an official of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine , speaking to Al Jazeera from inside the camp, called the Lebanese bombing of the camp "indiscriminate".

"All residents have stayed at home, taking shelter in lower floors," he said.

"We want ambulances to be allowed into the refugee camp to transfer the civilian casualties. We also want fire brigades to enter the camp and put off the fire in many buildings."

Links to al-Qaeda

Fighting broke out between the army and Fatah al-Islam on Sunday morning after security forces raided homes in the Lebanese town of Tripoli to arrest suspects of a bank robbery.

At least three members of Fatah al-Islam, which has been accused of having links to al-Qaeda and Syrian intelligence, were killed after the army stormed a building in Tripoli in which they were hiding.

Fighting at the refugee camp, where Fatah al-Islam has its headquarters, came in response to the raid on the building in Tripoli by the Lebanese military.

Fouad Siniora, Lebanon's prime minister, accused the group of trying to destabilise the country and called on the people of Lebanon to "join ranks behind the army and Lebanese security forces".

But a spokesman from Fatah al-Islam told Al Jazeera that the group was acting in self-defence had been made a "scapegoat".

Fatah al-Islam has denied links to al-Qaeda and charges that it carried out bus bombings that left three people dead in a Christian area north of Beirut in February.

The group accused the government of trying to pave the way for an offensive against Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

Beirut blast

Also on Sunday, an explosion near a shopping centre in Beirut, Lebanon's capital, killed a 63-year-old woman and injured 10 people.

The blast, across the street from the ABC shopping centre, occurred shortly before midnight (21:00 GMT) in Ashrafieh, an upscale and largely Christian neighbourhood, leaving a crater 1.5m deep and 3m wide in the road.

The blast appeared to have come from explosives placed inside a parked vehicle.
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What you mean!! the category or country!!! Cause they're both in chaos :)
the same thing that is happening to Leb from 30 years and on, but this times the opposite parties are different! too bad:(
In Tripoli, North of Lebanon, Lebanese Army are fighting a terrorist group called Fat7 el Islam which is probably linked to AL Qaeda and they are hidding in the Palestinian camps where innocent Palestinians are in the crossfire...and in the same time, this group is putting explosions in malls and public places trying to take the Lebanese Peace as hostage so that the Army would let those terrorists go.
I wonder who it was that mentioned, Tick Tock Tick Tock a while back ?? hmmmmmmm.....worse to come. IMHO!!