An entrance to the Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. (Photo provided by Michel Hallak)
NORTH LEBANON — Units from the Lebanese Army have started taking control of Fatah-Intifada offices at the entrance to the Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, according to information from our correspondent in the region. This step is part of the plan agreed upon between the army and Palestinian factions for the Lebanese state to take control of all access points to the camp.
Fatah-Intifada split from Fatah in 1983 following disagreements related to military decision-making and issues of corruption. This group is not a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The first phase of the plan to disarm Palestinian camps was launched in 2025 by Lebanese authorities as part of a broader effort to disarm militias and armed groups in Lebanon, in accordance with the process by which the state would exercise a monopoly on weapons, which had been approved by the Cabinet in August 2025. This process also involves the thorny issue of disarming Hezbollah. The plan to restore the monopoly on weapons notably enabled the collection of arsenals belonging to factions linked to the PLO in all Palestinian camps in Lebanon, but not those of Hamas and other groups close to the so-called axis of resistance.
In southern Lebanon, the disarmament of Hezbollah, which the army claimed to have almost completed south of the Litani River, was interrupted by the resumption of Israel's full-scale war on Lebanon on March 2, following the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
