Army Defuses Grenade Put under Car of Palestinian Official's Son

A hand grenade was discovered Tuesday under the car of a son of a top Palestinian official in Wadi al-Zayneh near the southern city of Sidon.

Al-Jadeed television said the grenade was placed under the car of Hussein al-Maqdah, a son of Maj. Gen. Munir al-Maqdah, the head of the Palestinian Joint Security Force, which is responsible for security inside Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps.

“The army cordoned off the area immediately and called in a military expert who defused the grenade,” al-Jadeed said.

The finding comes in the wake of several similar incident in Sidon in recent days.

On Saturday, a bomb was dismantled in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon.

Two fake bombs were found in the city of Sidon itself on Sunday and Monday. The incidents coincided with municipal and mayoral polls in the southern city.

And on April 12, senior Palestinian official Fathi Zaidan, a member of the mainstream Fatah Movement, was killed by an explosive device placed in his car near Ain el-Hilweh.

Zaidan was in charge of security in the Mieh Mieh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon.

Y.R.