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Another prickly issue is the situation in southern Lebanon. Occupying Israeli forces last week flexed their muscles briefly as tanks and troop carriers surrounded the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Hilweh, near Sidon, in a hunt for weapons and explosives. Two people were injured when Israeli troops opened fire, and a house was destroyed as the Israelis arrested about 30 residents. The camp was also the scene of escalating clashes between supporters of the P.L.O. and Ein el Hilweh's 30-member national guard, a local Palestinian militia organized and armed by the Israelis...
...house. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has just given her a small plot of land, $500 in Lebanese currency, a canvas tent and ten bags of cement. She will need more than that to rebuild her family's life. Six months ago, the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp in which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete...
...lean, gray-haired man of 65, regards himself as one of the lucky ones. "Mine," he says, "may be the only family here with no sons in prison." Saïd is the father of eleven children, six of whom live with him in Ein el Hilweh. His house is virtually intact, though his neighbor's, 20 yds. away, was leveled during the invasion. Said and his family previously lived in Tel Zaatar, the Beirut camp that was destroyed by the Lebanese Christians in 1976. Later he lived in Damur, a Christian town that was seized by Palestinian...
Some refugees are grateful for the aid, while others try to sabotage the relief operation. At Ein el Hilweh, some recently supplied tents have been slashed or set afire, while new sewer pipes and water faucets have been broken or pilfered. "We've made some progress," says Dennis Brown, an American who works for UNRWA. "But it has been a few steps forward, a few steps backward the whole time...
Nonetheless, Palestinian forces doggedly continued to challenge the Israeli occupation troops. Some 300 P.L.O. holdouts barricaded themselves inside the Ein el Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon and pelted Israeli positions with mortar fire before being flushed out. Other P.L.O. guerrillas, however, were said to have found refuge in the hills. Admitted an Israeli officer: "The territory has not yet been sterilized...