Osbat al-Nour (Arabic: عُصْبَة ٱلنُّور, romanized: ʕuṣba(t) an-nūr 'Band of Light') is an armed Islamist group that professes allegiance to a Salafist interpretation of Islam.
[1] In May 2003 fighting broke out between members of Osbat al-Nour and Fatah militia members in the south Lebanon Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh as part of an ongoing series of battles for control of the Palestinian refugee camp.
The shooting occurred while they were returning from the funeral of Ibrahim Shraidi, a family relative though a member of Fatah, who had been gunned down by an unknown assailant.
[4] About 200 Osbat al-Nour fundamentalist fighters attacked Fatah offices at Ain al-Hilweh.
Eight people were killed (included six members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement) and 25 wounded in the fighting.