Ain al-Hilweh (Arabic: عين الحلوة, lit. meaning "sweet natural spring"), also spelled as Ayn al-Hilweh and Ein El Hilweh, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. It had a population of over 70,000 Palestinian refugees but swelled to nearly 120,000, [1] as a result of influx of refugees from Syria since 2011.

On 30 July 2023, fighting broke out inside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon after Islamist gunmen tried to assassinate Fatah militant Mahmoud Khalil, killing a companion of his instead. Ain al-Hilweh is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Sidon District.

2023年7月31日 · At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in three days of fighting in Ein el-Hilweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

2022年9月11日 · Of the 12 official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Ain El-Hilweh (‘Ayn Al-Hilwe) is the largest in both area and population and is known among its 33,000 or so inhabitants as the “Capital...

2023年9月11日 · At least 10 people are reported to have been killed as a result of five days of intense fighting between factions in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Hundreds of families have fled Ein...

2017年6月9日 · Lebanon’s Ain el Hilwe Palestinian refugee camp in the country’s south has long been a hotbed of extremist activity and general lawlessness. As per the 1969 Cairo agreement between Lebanon and Yassir Arafat, Lebanese security …

2023年8月8日 · Located near Sidon, a coastal city 44 km south of Beirut, Ain al-Hilweh is the largest among Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps. The camp is enclosed by a wall with guarded entrances and checkpoints monitored by the Lebanese Army.

Ain el Hilwe is famous for being the most dangerous Palestinian camp. It remained unrivaled by the camps in both Jordan and Syria. Nothing has changed since I last saw Ain el Hilwe in 2005.

Hosting over 30, 000 inhabitants and governed by competing militias, 'Ayn al-Hilwe in the south of Lebanon is one of the most contested refugee camps in the Middle East. Known as the 'Capital of the Palestinian Diaspora', the camp has endured a long history of internal power struggles and external influence and intervention.