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Conflict Incident Report

Woman wounded by stray bullet in Sidon

Date of incident: 
August 5, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
1 person
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

In the Sidon Villas neighborhood, a Lebanese national identified was hit by a stray bullet, resulting of celebratory gunfire from the city’s Ain al-Hilweh camp.

Gunmen were cheering for the release of a Palestinian militant from prison, arrested in July on drug charges. 

 

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.