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Conflict Incident Report

Palestinian National Security Forces face in-house clashes

Date of incident: 
November 26, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Palestinian Civilians/Refugees
Fatah
Clashes erupted between two groups from the Palestinian National Security Forces in Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon.
 
Members loyal to Brig. Gen. Abu Ashraf al-Armoushi, the leader of the Palestinian National Security Forces, clashed with a group loyal to veteran Fatah official Munir al-Maqdah, although both parties belonged to the same force.
 
A source in the camp said that one man was injured. The source added that an investigation found that an official close to Armoushi was drunk when he passed by a military checkpoint manned by men loyal to Maqdah. The men say the official didn’t heed instruction from the guards and became violent towards the officers.
 
Shortly after the official left the area he returned with his own men and started shooting at the checkpoint. The source said that Armoushi had ordered for the man in question to be detained and was questioning him about the incident.
Primary category: 
Shooting
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.