30 AUAD v. BULGARIA JUDGMENT the camp calmed down and that on 4 August 2010 the two groups’ leaders in Ain al-Hilweh made a truce. 86. On 25 December 2010 the television network Al-Jazeera reported that a senior Jund al-Sham commander, Ghandi Sahmarani, had been found murdered in Ain el-Hilweh. It said that the death of Sahmarani “could be a major blow for [Jund al-Sham], which has had several leaders and members either killed or fleeing its ranks in the past few years”. 87. On 3 January 2011 the Lebanese news website NOW Lebanon reported on the latest developments with Jund al-Sham. The report said, inter alia, that colonel Issa, appointed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in May 2010 as the head of the Fatah security in the camps, had said that Fatah and other factions present in Ain al-Hilweh, mainly Usbat al-Ansar, had reached a peace agreement. After talks, Usbat al-Ansar leaders had given Issa a free mandate to annihilate the threat he said jihadists and radicals posed to the camp’s security. Issa was quoted as saying that “[a]fter some battles with these factions, some died, many of them were captured and handed over to the Lebanese authorities, and those that were left fled. These groups took advantage of the instability in Lebanon and infiltrated the camp, and when we realized that they were among suspects in explosions taking place around stores, we started dealing with them with security means, we captured many of them, went to battle with some, and some, like I said, fled”. He had also said that some of the jihadists had left for Europe, adding that “[t]hey were originally in the ‘emergency’ area [at the outskirts of the camp] and started fleeing bit by bit. Some left to France, some to Belgium, some to Sofia in Bulgaria”. He had said that in mid-December 2010, five of the runaways had been sent back to Lebanon by the Bulgarian authorities. Among them had been Youssef Kayed, a rogue former Fatah member who had rebelled against the central command, Anwar al-Sidawi and Imad Karroum, both wanted by the Lebanese authorities. The report went on to say that according to another Fatah official in Ain al-Hilweh, what was left of the radical Islamists was no longer a threat without the head of the militant group. “The phenomenon of Jund al-Sham is over in the camps now and does not constitute a threat anymore,” he had told NOW. 88. In an article of 26 April 2011, titled “Fatah and Jund al-Sham clash in Ain al-Hilweh”, the Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported that during the previous weekend there had been armed clashes, with an exchange of missiles, between Fatah and members of Jund al-Sham. They had started after two unidentified individuals had refused to obey the commands of the security forces at a checkpoint. Jund al-Sham militants had joined the conflict after reportedly coming under fire from Fatah.