Although this happened last week, it is barely mentioned in Palestinian or international media. His name is not published in lists of Palestinians killed this year. In fact, his name has not been published at all.
Because it happened in Lebanon.
One person was killed and several others wounded in overnight clashes in south Lebanon's restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, a Palestinian official said Thursday.The clashes pitted members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement against Islamist groups in the camp, located near the coastal city of Sidon, said senior Fatah official Mounir Makdah."One person was killed and seven wounded," he told AFP, adding that "all Palestinian forces are working to put an end" to the violence.Clashes between rival groups are common in Ain al-Helweh, which is home to more than 54,000 registered Palestinian refugees who have been joined in recent years by thousands of Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Syria.An AFP correspondent said shooting had mostly subsided around dawn but that sporadic gunfire could still be heard later in the morning.The situation remained tense and armed men deployed to the streets of the camp, while schools run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were closed.By long-standing convention, the Lebanese army does not enter Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, leaving the factions themselves to handle security.
So here we have an area completely controlled by Palestinians, effectively a micro Palestinian state, and where they regularly shoot each other.
Imagine what a Palestinian state would be like!
Not only has the victim not been identified in the media, but also which faction shot him. All those details are not important when Israel isn't involved.
Here's video of what they camp sounded like during the clashes:
As of today, UNRWA schools and health clinics in the camp remain closed because of the tension. The media doesn't seem too upset over that, either. And the UNRWA Twitter feed hasn't mentioned a word.
It is almost like a conspiracy of silence when Jews aren't involved.
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