Fatah commander wounded in Lebanon blast: medics

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

AIN EL-HELWEH, Lebanon (AFP) — A Fatah military commander was seriously wounded in an explosion on Tuesday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, a medic said after a Palestinain official had earlier said he had been killed.

Talal al-Asmar "had surgery to the legs and is in stable condition," doctor Yehiya Shehab of the Labib Medical Centre in the southern port city of Sidon, outside Ain el-Helweh camp, told AFP.

Asmar was still scheduled to have eye surgery, the doctor added.

Earlier a Palestinian official had said that Asmar, who belongs to the Fatah faction loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, had been killed in a bomb attack in the sprawling camp.

That report was later contradicted by another Palestinian official who said that...