Fighting raged this week between the Lebanese army and radical Islamists entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp, leaving scores dead and hundreds wounded. Beginning on May 20th, the thud of explosions and clatter of machine-gun fire echoed into the hills above the Nahr al-Bared camp, near the northern city of Tripoli, as troops struggled to root out several hundred heavily armed fighters. By mid-week, many of the camp's 30,000 or so residents had fled during lulls in the shooting. But as edgy, exhausted army conscripts tightened their siege, and the militants inside declared a fight to the death, the battle looked set to continue.
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