Click to play videoNew Delhi: The victims of the ongoing struggle between the Lebanese Army and Islamic militants received some help after a fragile truce allowed UN aid trucks to enter the camp.
The relief, however, was short-lived as clashes soon resumed. Aid workers were allowed to enter the camp but were forced to leave when shells exploded near their convoy.
The residents who ventured out of their homes, due to hunger and thirst, could only find destruction.
After three days of intense violence, Fatah al-Islam said it would cease-fire if the army did the same.
Meanwhile, people flee a besieged Palestinian refugee camp on Tuesday night, waving white flags.
The nighttime escape did not appear to be part of an organised truce and there was no sign the battle was over.
There was no immediate indication of whether the flight of civilians would give the government a freer hand in bombarding militants holed up in the camp. The militants began trickling into the camp about 10 months ago.
The army has said its troops were trying to target only militant positions.
So far around 80 people have died since the battle began Sunday in the heaviest internal fighting in Lebanon since the 1975-90 civil war.
Twenty-nine soldiers and at least 20 militants had been killed in the clashes but the exact number of civilian casualties remained unknown because relief workers were not able to get inside the camp.
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