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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon reportedly awaits ''decisive week'' as to Palestinian arms — Naharnet
2025-05-27
[NAHARNET] This week is supposed to be ''decisive'' regarding the file of weapons inside Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
's Paleostinian refugee camps, ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Monday.

''Lebanese official authorities are awaiting answers within hours from the Paleostinian side regarding the mechanism for handing over weapons in five of the camps in the first stage, which is supposed to be finalized before mid-June,'' the daily said.

''A second stage will follow during which the rest of weapons will be handed over in the rest of the camps, most notably Ain al-Helweh,'' ad-Diyar said.

A Lebanese official meanwhile told the daily that ''the official Paleostinian sides will this week prove whether they are serious in their cooperation and whether they will push for a speedy handover process.''

The disarmament of Paleostinian camps in Lebanon will begin next month based on an accord with visiting Paleostinian 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....>
, a Lebanese government official told AFP on Friday.

The Lebanese and Paleostinian sides agreed on starting a plan "to remove weapons from the camps, beginning mid-June in the Beirut camps, and other camps will follow," the source told AFP.
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