
Lebanese soldiers deployed near the U.S. embassy, north of Beirut, on June 5, 2024. (Credit: Joseph Eid/AFP)
BEIRUT — A Lebanese Army unit, accompanied by a patrol from the army's Intelligence Directorate, entered a site controlled by an armed Palestinian faction in the town of Kfar Zabad (Zahle district) on Sunday, according to our correspondent in the Bekaa.
The site, known as the Jamila Ain al-Bayda location, had been held by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. The army entered to take control of the site.
On Saturday, the Lebanese Army also took over several strategic sites previously held by Palestinian factions.