Conflict Incident Report

Fatah official assassinated

Associated Timeline/Case:

Tensions at Ain el-Helweh (starting August 7, 2014)

Date of incident:

April 12, 2016

Death toll:

1 person

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Fatah

SIDON, Lebanon: Fears of a major confrontation in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh heightened Tuesday following the assassination of a senior Fatah Movement official in a car bomb near the camp. Brig. Gen. Fathi Zeidan, the Movement’s secretary in Sidon’s Mieh Mieh Camp, was killed in what was the first targeting of a Palestinian official outside a refugee camp in years.

The assassination was condemned by rival political groups of Sidon who warned against plots to destabilize Ain al-Hilweh and its environs.

Better known as “Zorro,” Zeidan was killed after a bomb placed in his BMW went off at the Al-Amercan Roundabout, close to the entrance of Ain al-Hilweh, his destination. http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Apr-13/347117-ain-al-...

NNA - Lebanese Army Command's Guidance Directorate on Tuesday issued a statement saying that at around 12:00 pm today a fatal explosion broke out in the American Square in Sidon inside a BMW car driven by the senior official of Fatah Movement in Miyewmiyeh camp, Fathi Zaydan.
http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/59866/Army-Fatah-senior-killed-in-Sid...

Primary category:

Assassination

Secondary Category:

Explosion

Classification of conflict (primary):

Power & governance conflicts

Violent or non-violent conflicts associated with antagonisms related to internal political tensions between local and/or national groups and parties. These tensions may be encouraged by internal, regional and international parties. Such conflicts are characterized by their defiance and/or opposition to central State power and governance.

Back to map

You are here

Conflict Incident Report

Fatah official assassinated