Iran has thoughtfully sent a shipment of food to the Nahr al-Bared “refugee camp” in Lebanon (a refugee camp that has existed for decades), a stronghold of militant Islam.

But the Palestinians in the camp are refusing to eat the food. Why? Because the Lebanese Army used sniffer dogs to search the shipment, and Islamists are disgusted and terrified by dogs: Palestinians say Lebanon army soiled Iran food aid UK.

Palestinian factions in Lebanon accused the army on Saturday of contaminating Iranian food aid destined for a refugee camp by using sniffer-dogs to search the shipment.

“Camp residents refuse to eat what the police dogs have soiled,” several Palestinian factions in northern Lebanon, including the Islamist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said in a statement received by AFP.

It referred to a shipment donated by Iran for residents of the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, which was devastated by deadly battles between a fringe Islamist group and the army in 2007.

The Palestinian factions said they could no longer receive the aid and accused the army of delaying its delivery describing this as a “humiliating” act.