A Lebanese national identified as Marwan Issa was found killed on Sunday in the Ain el-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon, a day after he went missing.
“Issa was found killed with gunfire to the head inside a car's trunk in the Jabal al-Halib region located in the Ain el-Helweh camp,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The agency added that the “camp's Joint Palestinian Force launched an investigation to reveal the circumstances behind the incident and arrested three Palestinians suspected of being involved in the murder.”
Ain el-Helweh, the largest Palestinian camp in the country, hosts about 50,000 refugees who live in dire conditions and is known to harbor extremists and outlaws.
By long-standing agreement, the Lebanese military does not enter any of Lebanon’s 12 refugee camps, leaving security inside to the Palestinians.