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Lebanon builds wall near Palestinian refugee camp
by AFP
November 22, 2016

Lebanon is building wall near the country’s largest Palestinian refugee camp to prevent extremists from infiltrating, a military source said Monday. The overcrowded and impoverished Ain al-Hilweh camp near the southern coastal city of Sidon has gained notoriety in recent years as a refuge for Muslim extremists and fugitives. It also saw deadly fighting last year between the Jund al-Sham Islamist group and members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement…Social media users compared the wall to a controversial separation barrier which Israel has been building in the occupied West Bank since 2002. READ MORE

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