The struggle to keep the peace in Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp
Ain al-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest and most notorious Palestinian refugee camp, is home to over 90,000 people - including 17 different armed factions - living in endemic poverty, in a one-square kilometre area surrounded by Lebanese army checkpoints...
On Fouqany street, one of two main thoroughfares in Ain al-Hilweh, the facades of many buildings stand pock-marked by bullet-fire.
Posters depicting Yasser Arafat hang from awnings alongside black and white Salafist flags, while haphazard networks of electricity wire feed power to Lebanon's largest Palestinian camp, where few outsiders go and fears about the rise of the militants, including the Islamic State (IS) group, are growing.
Nearby, in a four-storey facility guarded by gunmen in military fatigues, Fatah Major General Mounir Maqdah sat composed as he described the security situation in the camp, home to between 90,000 and 120,000 people living in endemic poverty in a one-square-kilometre area surrounded by Lebanese army checkpoints...
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