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2025-08-31 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Palestinian factions hand over weapons from Beirut camps
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[IsraelTimes] Truckloads of guns, rockets and heavy weapons leave towns as government continues its efforts to disarm non-state groups
Paleostinian factions in several Beirut refugee camps surrendered their weapons to the Lebanese army on the weekend, an official said, as the government works to disarm non-state groups.
Ramez Dimashkieh, chairman of the official Lebanese-Paleostinian Dialogue Committee, told AFP Friday that "the Paleostine Liberation Organization handed over three truckloads of weapons to the Lebanese army," including rockets and heavy weapons.
One truckload came from the Mar Elias camp and Shatila camps, and two from the Burj al-Barajneh camp in Beirut and its suburbs, he said, adding that "this completes the process of handing over" PLO weapons from the Beirut camps.
At the entrance to the Burj al-Barajneh camp, AFP correspondents saw large wooden crates being moved to a nearby parking lot where soldiers inspected them before transporting them away, as troops deployed heavily to the area.
The official National News Agency had earlier reported the arrival of army vehicles in the camp "to receive a new batch of Paleostinian weapons."
During a visit to Beirut in May, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed that weapons in Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Paleostinian refugee camps would be handed over to the Lebanese authorities.
The implementation of the deal began last week as Abbas’s Fatah movement surrendered weapons in Burj al-Barajneh camp.
Abbas’s Fatah is the most prominent PLO faction. Paleostinian terror groups Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, which are allied to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, are not part of the organization.
Dimashkieh said Friday that "there are still other factions that have not surrendered their weapons, but the process has started."
On Thursday, PLO factions handed over heavy weapons in south Lebanon’s Rashidieh, al-Bass and Burj al-Shemali camps, the Lebanese-Paleostinian dialogue committee said.
The move to collect the Paleostinian factions’ weapons comes as the Lebanese army draws up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.
The plan, which is to be presented to the cabinet by the end of the month, was commissioned by the government under heavy US pressure and amid fears of expanded Israeli military action.
Hezbollah last year fought a bruising war with Israel that ended in a ceasefire in November. Hezbollah has been under domestic and international pressure since then to give up its remaining arsenal, which it has so far refused to do.
Implementation of the plan for the Paleostinian camps was delayed amid disagreements among and within the various Paleostinian factions operating in Lebanon over the mechanism for handing over the weapons.
Hamas and other armed factions were involved in firing at Israel from Lebanon with the start of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
war and the ensuing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which a November ceasefire sought to end.
The ceasefire stipulated that only the Lebanese military would bear arms and that all forces would withdraw from the country’s south, with the exception of the army and UN peacekeepers.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon in cases where it sees Hezbollah violating the ceasefire, and its troops still hold five positions in the south that it deems strategic for its defense.
Earlier this month, US envoy Tom Barrack said following Beirut’s commitment to disarm Hezbollah, it was Israel’s turn to make good on its side of the ceasefire, apparently referring to the retreat of troops back into Israel.
US network Axios reported that US officials had asked Israel to temporarily cut back on strikes in Lebanon deemed "non-urgent" and pull troops from one border point, as a show of good faith in support of the Lebanese effort.
Though officials doubt Beirut is strong enough to forcibly disarm Hezbollah, they hope Israel’s move will help give it the needed maneuverability to seize the terror group’s weapons.
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