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By Nazih Siddiq
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 30 (Reuters) - Lebanon charged 20 members of Fatah al-Islam with terrorism on Wednesday and Lebanese troops battled jihadists from the militant group at a Palestinian refugee camp in the north for an 11th day.
Judiciary sources said the charges against the 19 Lebanese and one Syrian, all in custody, carried the death penalty and were linked to fighting around the Nahr al-Bared camp that has killed 79 people -- 34 soldiers, 27 militants and 18 civilians.
The Lebanese authorities blame the group for starting the confrontations by attacking army positions at the camp and near the northern city of Tripoli on May 20.
The fighting, the worst in Lebanon since the 1975-1990 civil war, has continued sporadically.
The combatants exchanged artillery shells and mortar bombs for hours overnight in the heaviest fighting in a week, witnesses said. But the clashes tapered off in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Lebanese government has demanded the militants surrender. Fatah al-Islam say they have been acting in self defence and reject the demand to hand over any of their fighters.
A 1969 Arab agreement stops the army from entering Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps, home to 400,000.
The government has given Palestinian leaders in Lebanon a chance to find a way out of the stand-off, as it is concerned that the refugees will see more army action at the camp as an attack on their community.
More than 25,000 of the camp's 40,000 Palestinians have fled from the fighting. Most of the displaced refugees have flooded the nearby Beddawi camp, where humanitarian organisations have been carrying out relief work.
More food supplies, medicine and water were sent to Nahr al-Bared, whose remaining inhabitants have no electricity or running water, witnesses said.
The prospect of a decisive military solution to the stand-off has been played down by the government in recent days because it could trigger violence at other refugee camps, even though Fatah al-Islam has little support among Palestinians.
Members of Lebanon's anti-Syrian cabinet have described Fatah al-Islam as a tool of Syrian intelligence, although Damascus denies any links to the group.
Lebanese authorities say Fatah al-Islam includes Arabs from Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon.
The International Red Cross helps Australian-Palestinians, who were visiting family in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, retrieve their belongings in northern Lebanon May 30, 2007. Jihadists battling the Lebanese army in north Lebanon were either on their way to or from Iraq, Palestinian political sources believe, a sign that the shadow of Sunni militancy there has started to fall over Arab countries nearby. Many of the Fatah al-Islam militants had originally come to Lebanon to train for Iraq, the main front for al Qaeda in its battle with the United States, a Palestinian source in Lebanon said. Some had already fought there.
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