The Lebanese army shot dead at least one Palestinian during clashes Monday in a refugee camp in northern Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said.

Three Lebanese army soldiers and 10 Palestinians were injured in the clashes, the sources said.

According to an army statement carried by the National News Agency (NNA), the clashes erupted in the refugee camp of Nahr el- Bared after rogue elements attacked military posts in the camp during a funeral procession for 15-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Qassem, who was killed Friday in the camp.

A military vehicle was set ablaze in the fighting, the statement added.

The army warned in the statement "the Palestinian brothers not to be victims of political exploitation and that forcing the army into confronting with them does not serve the agreement that was reached with the Palestinian factions last week."

The killing of Qassem and clashes on Monday have raised considerably the tension in the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, which in 2007 witnessed deadly clashes between the army and Islamist gunmen.

The NNA reported that residents of the Beddawi refugee camp, also near the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, blocked roads inside the camp in protest of the incident in Nahr al-Bared.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman received Monday a phone call from his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas and discussed with him the "tense situation in the Nahr al-Bared camp," the NNA said.

Abbas urged Suleiman to address the situation, expressing his readiness "to help in the efforts aiming at calming the situation, " according to the NNA.

Abbas reiterated "the respect of the Palestinians and their obedience to the Lebanese laws and their keenness on security and stability in all the refugee camps in Lebanon."