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Conflict Incident Report

Army arrests Palestinian on shooting charges at Ain elHilweh entrance

Associated Timeline/Case: 
Tensions at Ain el-Helweh (starting August 7, 2014)
Date of incident: 
February 19, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Military Intelligence
Palestinian Civilians/Refugees

NNA - Army Intelligence arrested, a Palestinian by the name of Issa Qassem (nicknamed as "Poor Issa") at a military checkpoint at the entrance to Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp in the area of al-Hasba, on a judicial warrant for being involved in a shooting incident, NNA correspondent in Sidon reported. 
 

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.