According to reports, at least 600 people died between October and December 1986 in the fighting between Amal and Palestinians. [ Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume XXXIII, March 1987, p. 35023.] On 13 August, fighting between the PLO and Amal began again at the camps of Ein al Hilwe and Mieh Mieh (near Sidon), and continued until 11 September. [ Keesing's Record of World Events, Volume XXXIV, January 1988, p. 35672.] Fighting resumed in October near Sidon, and again in December at Chatila camp (southern Beirut). [ Ibid.] Intermittent fighting between Amal and Palestinian factions continued around the Palestinian camps south of Beirut until mid-1988, when the Arafat faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization was force to retreat to positions in Sidon after two months of battles against members of the Abu Musa faction of Fatah. [ "Syria's hand behind the rout of Arafat's men", Manchester Guardian, 17 July 1988.]

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Regarding the Hezbollah treatment of the Palestinians, Degenhardt's Revolutionary and Dissident Movements mentions that Hezbollah had established "something of an informal alliance with the Palestine Liberation Organization, based on their mutual antipathy to Israel." (pg. 216) No further information is currently available to the IRBDC regarding Hezbollah treatment of Palestinian refugee camps.

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