Six people were killed today in clashes in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el Helueh, despite a ceasefire declared on Monday, after days of deadly fighting between Islamist extremists and Fatah fighters.

Clashes resumed tonight and a road that runs past the camp was blocked, an AFP correspondent from the neighboring town of Saida said.

According to the communications director of the Palestinian Red Crescent in Lebanon, Imad Halak, six people were killed and 13 wounded.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah and the Islamist group Hamas had pledged to uphold a fragile truce in the camp, Lebanon’s largest.

Since September 7, at least nine people have been killed and more than 85 injured, including civilians, according to the tally announced today by the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Senior Palestinian officials, including Fatah’s Azzam al-Ahmad and Hamas’s Musa Abu Marzouk, met Tuesday night at the Palestinian embassy in Beirut. In the joint statement they issued today, they emphasize that they “committed to observe the ceasefire” and to coordinate their actions with the Lebanese government.

Based on an old agreement, the Lebanese army is not deployed in the Palestinian camps, the security of which is undertaken by Palestinian organizations.

Ahmad discussed the situation today with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and key representatives of the country’s security services.

Ain el Helueh is the largest of the 12 Palestinian camps established in Lebanon when refugees arrived after the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Today, about 54,000 people live there, including radical Islamists and people wanted by the judicial authorities. According to the United Nations Office for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), hundreds of families have been displaced by the fighting.