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UN says militants are occupying a school complex in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian camp after clashes

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By ABBY SEWELL

BEIRUT (AP) — Two weeks after clashes between armed factions in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp ended, militants are still occupying a United Nations-run school complex, U.N. officials have said. Dorothee Klaus, Director of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, in Lebanon, said in a statement that the agency has “received alarming reports that armed actors continue to occupy its installations including a school compound″ in the Ein el-Hilweh camp.  The compound provides education to 3,200 out of a total of 6,000 students in the camp, which is home to more than 50,000 people.

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