Truce holds in besieged Palestinian refugee camp

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians carrying their belongings in plastic bags trickled out of a besieged refugee camp in the Lebanon today after a truce in the fighting mostly held overnight.

About 15,000 – nearly half the camp’s residents – fled late at night when the lull took hold between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants barricaded in the crowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli, relief officials said. About 1,000 fled this morning.