Fatah hands over weapons to Lebanese Army in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp
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As part of Lebanon’s plan to place all weapons under state authority and withdraw arms from Palestinian refugee camps, the Fatah movement, the main Palestinian political faction led by President Mahmoud Abbas, at Ain al-Hilweh camp in the southern city of Sidon handed over a second batch of medium-grade weapons to the Lebanese Army.
This is the fifth batch of Palestinian weapons to be handed over in Palestinian camps across Lebanon.
Annahar’s correspondent in Sidon reported a heavy deployment of Lebanese Army units around the weapons handover site, stretching from Jabal Al Halib, on the eastern and southern edges of Ain al-Hilweh camp, to the Siroub area on the northern and western outskirts, amid heightened security measures.
The weapons transfer coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement in 1965.