Might 21, 2025
Abbas visits Lebanon to debate the disarmament of refugee camps
The Lebanese and Palestinian leaders agreed that Palestinian factions wouldn’t use Lebanon as the beginning -up pad for assaults towards Israel.
This announcement came about throughout a gathering between President Michel Aoun and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas used to have a 3 -day go to to Lebanon in Beirut, his first in seven years.
The joint clarification states that each side have agreed that Palestinian camps in Lebanon aren’t “secure ports for extremist teams”. It added that “the Palestinian facet confirms its dedication to not use Lebanese areas to begin army operations”.
The settlement additionally mentions the disarmament of Palestinian refugee camps like Lebanon tries to train authority over its whole space.
In a joint clarification, the Lebanese presidency stated that the 2 guides share “the idea that the period of weapons outdoors the management of the Lebanese state has ended”.
The reason added that each guides expressed the dedication to the precept that weapons ought to solely be “within the fingers of the Lebanese state”.
Based on Unrwa, the UN Company for Palestinian refugees, 500,000 Palestinians are registered as refugees in Lebanon. Most of them are descendants of people that fled in 1948 throughout the creation of Israel or have been excluded from their nation.
Round 222,000 Palestinians stay in crowded camps that transcend the management of the Lebanese authorities. Based on a protracted -term conference, the Lebanese military stays out of the refugee camps and leaves safety to the Palestinian factions.
Palestinian factions have been competing lately equivalent to Abbas’ Fatah motion and the militant Hamas Group, got here collectively within the camps, precipitated losses and affected the close by areas.
It was not instantly clear how the weapons could be faraway from the camps.
