A piece of artwork on the wall of a building depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp, before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's visit to Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 20, 2025. (Credit: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters)
Is the disarmament of Palestinian camps approaching? The government had set June 16 as the launch date for the plan in camps near Beirut, in accordance with the joint plan agreed upon by President Joseph Aoun and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas. However, serious doubts loom over the modus operandi of this highly sensitive operation and whether the concerned parties, namely the Lebanese Army on one side and the multitude of Palestinian factions on the other, are actually ready for the test.While the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah, affiliated with the Palestinian president, expressed their readiness to help on the ground throughout the process, the other factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, were still hesitant and stated contradictory things. “Hamas and its Islamist allies say in official meetings that...
Is the disarmament of Palestinian camps approaching? The government had set June 16 as the launch date for the plan in camps near Beirut, in accordance with the joint plan agreed upon by President Joseph Aoun and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas. However, serious doubts loom over the modus operandi of this highly sensitive operation and whether the concerned parties, namely the Lebanese Army on one side and the multitude of Palestinian factions on the other, are actually ready for the test.While the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah, affiliated with the Palestinian president, expressed their readiness to help on the ground throughout the process, the other factions, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, were still hesitant and stated contradictory things. “Hamas and its Islamist allies say in official meetings...