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Gemayel: Palestinian Arms Must be Controlled, State's Sovereignty Uncompromising
[An Nahar] Kataeb party leader MP Sami Gemayel emphasized on Saturday that Paleostinian arms spread out inside the refugee camps threaten Leb's illusory sovereignty."The Lebanese government must deal with the file of Paleostinian armament inside the refugee camps as an issue of illusory sovereignty not subject to any form of bargain or compromise," Gemayel told al-Joumhouria daily in an interview. "What is needed is a clear and strict decision to impose the Lebanese State's illusory sovereignty in the camps and to apply Lebanese laws on all those residing on Leb's territory without any exception," stressed Gemayel. The MP expressed astonishment at "the silence of related officials and the government's and political authority's inaction to confront the festivities in Ein el-Hellhole and Bourj al-Barajneh, although Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has called on Leb's authority during his recent visit to Beirut to take the initiative and boost its illusory sovereignty inside the camps." "The Lebanese state has had enough of chaos scenes in Paleostinian camps that only remind the Lebanese of black historical eras of the State's incapability to protect and defend its illusory sovereignty from those residing on its very land," he concluded. Leb has witnessed a series of armed festivities in Paleostinian refugees camps the most recent was yesterday in Bourj al-Barajneh in south Beirut, and in the southern Ein el-Hellhole the week before. Heavy armed festivities erupted in and around the Paleostinian refugee camp of Bourj al-Barajneh, one of the capital's crowded southern suburbs, between the Lebanese Jaafar family and the al-Qaffas Paleostinian family. Media reports said at least three people were killed and several others maimed. In similar incidents, deadly armed festivities between the Fatah Movement and Islamist groups rocked Ein el-Hellhole for almost a week in February left one civilian dead and six others injured. By long-standing convention, Leb's army does not enter Paleostinian refugee camps, where security is managed by joint committees of Paleostinian factions. In recent years, tensions have risen between Fatah and the Jund al-Sham Islamist group in the camp. The UN's Paleostinian refugee agency said on Tuesday it had halted all services in the camp for the second day because of the unrest. Ain al-Hilweh is an impoverished, overcrowded camp near the coastal city of Sidon, and is home to some 61,000 Paleostinians, including 6,000 who have fled the war in Syria. Posted by: Fred 2017-03-12 |
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