A truce between the Lebanese military and Fatah al-Islam at a Palestinian refugee camp entered its 4th day on Saturday, while more Palestinians trickled out of the camp and the United States sent more aid to the Lebanese army.

The truce, started on Tuesday night, is still holding despite sporadic exchanges of gunfire, said the official Lebanese News Agency, adding over 200 Palestinians left the camp on Saturday as the army continued a siege on the camp.

Also on Saturday, three U.S. transport planes carrying military aid to the Lebanese army arrived in Beirut, airport sources were quoted as saying.

They said that the three U.S. planes came after five other military transport planes carrying emergency aid goods. One from the U.S. Air Force while two each from the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

The aid came as the Lebanese army were gearing up for a possible crush on the militants, rolling more troops into place around the camp already ringed by soldiers backed by artillery and tanks.

A deadly fighting broke out on Sunday between the Lebanese army and the Fatah al-Islam, a militant group reportedly linked to al- Qaida, around the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

The some week-long fighting has left scores dead, destroyed houses and driven more than half of the refugee camp's 40,000 residents fleeing their homes.

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday about army troops' storming the refugee camp where Fatah al- Islam militants are holed up, saying it would cause "discord" in Lebanon.

In a televised speech on the occasion of the 7th anniversary of the Israel's pullout from southern Lebanon, Nasrallah also described the airlifting of U.S. military supplies to the Lebanese military "a grave thing."

He warned of a danger of Lebanon slipping into a battleground between the United States and the al-Qaida, urging that the issue could be solved politically and through the judiciary way.

Source: Xinhua