Abdullah Shraidi ( ) was the former leader of
Osbat al-Nour
Osbat al-Nour ( ) is an armed Islamist group that professes allegiance to a Salafist interpretation of Islam.
Ain al-Hilweh 2003
In May 2003 fighting broke out between members of Osbat al-Nour and Fatah militia members in the south Lebanon Pales ...
whose near-fatal shooting on May 17, 2003, sparked violence between members of Osbat al-Nour and
Fatah
Fatah ( ; ), formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (), is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and ...
militia
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members in the
Palestinian refugee camp
Palestinian refugee camps were first established to accommodate Palestinians who were displaced by the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight during the 1948 Palestine war. Camps were established by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UN ...
of
Ain al-Hilweh
Ain al-Hilweh (, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein El Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but swelled to nearly 120,000, as ...
in southern
Lebanon
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.
[Eight killed, 25 wounded in Lebanon refugee camp battle]
The shooting took place after the funeral of family relative
Ibrahim Shraidi, a Fatah member gunned down by an unknown assailant. The Shraidi's are a large clan in Ain al-Hilweh and members of the family can be found in opposing factions in the camp. The fighting that occurred left 8 dead and 25 wounded.
Shraidi died two months later, in July,
from wounds sustained during the shooting after Fatah had agreed to a
cease fire
A ceasefire (also known as a truce), also spelled cease-fire (the antonym of 'open fire'), is a stoppage of a war in which each side agrees with the other to suspend aggressive actions often due to mediation by a third party. Ceasefires may be ...
.
References
Year of birth missing
2003 deaths
Deaths by firearm in Lebanon
Assassinated Lebanese people
People murdered in Lebanon
Salafi jihadists
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