Fugitive militant Shadi al-Mawlawi has reportedly left his hideaway in the southern Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh in Sidon and fled to Syria together with other suspects, media reports said.
A well-informed security Palestinian source told VDL (93.3) radio that the latter has left the camp five days ago and has fled to Syria with two other militants one of them from the group of extremist cleric Ahmed al-Asir and another individual from the Tripoli area.
Mawlawi has left the camp during clashes that erupted in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp which means that the clash was deliberate to cover their exit, said the source.
He said a video footage documenting Mawlawi’s escape will likely be broadcast today in order to reassure the people of the camp and the Palestinian Follow-up Committee.
It added that an Islamic faction inside the camp might have helped and organized his escape.
VDL added that Lebanon’s security forces have not denied nor affirmed the news.
Mawlawi had led armed groups that engaged in deadly gunbattles with the army in Tripoli and its surrounding in 2014.
