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Ambulances rushed the wounded to hospitals near the Ein el-Hilweh camp in the port city of Sidon, and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that four people had been killed since the fighting began Friday.

Fighters armed with assault rifles and truck- mountedrocket-propelled grenades traded fire inside.

Traces of violence spilled beyond the camp’s boundaries, and authorities closed the highway connecting the city to southern Lebanon.

Sidon’s government hospital was struck by a rocket.

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