AUAD v. BULGARIA JUDGMENT 29 in 2002. The report said that the group had been blamed or had claimed responsibility for a number of bombings and gun battles in Lebanon and Syria. The previous years it had fought Lebanese troops after joining a revolt by fellow Islamic militant group Fatah al-Islam which was centred on the northern Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. 82. On 17 May 2007 the news service IRIN, a non-profit project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reported that two Fatah members had been killed the previous week in clashes with Jund al-Sham in Ain al-Hilweh. It said that the group, whose active fighters were believed to number fewer than fifty out of an estimated membership of up to two hundred and fifty, had frequently been blamed by the Syrian authorities for a string of failed attacks in Syria over the previous two years. A revenge attack on 15 May 2007 by unidentified gunmen in the camp had wounded two Jund al-Sham members. 83. On 5 August 2007 IRIN reported that on 4 June 2007 fighters from Jund al-Sham, which it described as a loosely knit “takfiri” group – which Palestinians had said had no leader and had all but disbanded – had attacked a Lebanese Army checkpoint outside Ain al-Hilweh. The report said that the group was based in a small stretch of no-man’s-land known as Taamir, between the boundary of Ain al-Hilweh and one of the Lebanese Army checkpoints that overlooked the camp. Following the attack, Ansar Allah, another Palestinian Islamist group, had been tasked with heading an eighty-member security force to control two of the camp border checkpoints, including the one overlooking the Jund al-Sham stronghold. The other camp border checkpoints, as well as security inside the camp, had remained the task of Fatah. The report went on to say that Fatah militants had had regular deadly clashes with Jund al-Sham over the previous six months, and also faced a challenge from other armed and more radical Palestinian groups, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command or Usbat al-Ansar. 84. On 29 April 2008 IRIN reported that on 21 March 2008 heavy clashes had broken out between Fatah and members of Jund al-Sham. The fighting, which had prompted at least one hundred families to flee the camp, had been triggered after Fatah had seized a commander of Jund al-Sham who had fought the Lebanese Army the previous summer, and had handed him over to that Army. Fatah’s security chief in Lebanon, Mounir Maqdah, had told the agency that while the Jund al-Sham commander had been seized without enough coordination with other factions in Ain al-Hilweh, new security arrangements would ensure that no militants could exist beyond the reach of the inter-factional committees. 85. In a recent incident, on 2 January 2010 a Fatah member was wounded during a half-hour skirmish with members of Jund Al-Sham. However, from reports in the press it appears that after that the situation in