I received the following statement from the Committee to Protect Journalists…

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that journalists have been prevented since Monday from entering a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon during clashes between Islamist militants and the Lebanese Army.
The Lebanese Army restricted public access to the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, near Tripoli, the day after fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam—an extremist group that emerged six months ago in Lebanon and shares al-Qaeda’s ideology—and the Lebanese Army. Journalists, both local and foreign, are covering the clashes and their effect on more than 30,000 Palestinian refugees caught up in the fighting.

Click on Naji el-Ali’s cartoon below to read the full statement…