Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and member of the Central Committee of the Fatah Movement, Azzam Al-Ahmad, left Lebanon for Jordan, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is returning from New York after participating in the work of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, in order to put him urgently in the atmosphere of the meetings that took place. With Lebanese and Palestinian officials about the Ain al-Hilweh clashes.
“Nidaa Al Watan” learned that Al-Ahmad will return to Lebanon again within the next few days to follow up on the implementation of the agreement that took place between the “Palestinian Joint Action Authority” and with Lebanese political and security support, specifically the issue of handing over the suspects in the crime of assassinating Major General “Abu Ashraf” Al-Armushi to Lebanese justice. He repeated to those close to him that “this file must be brought to an end at the end of this month.”
During the work of the General Assembly, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati discussed with President Abbas bilateral Palestinian-Lebanese relations and developments in the situation in Ain al-Hilweh, where the latter affirmed his keenness to achieve calm in the camp, and for matters to be dealt with in accordance with Lebanese law, and in coordination with the Lebanese state.
Al-Ahmad, who held continuous Lebanese and Palestinian political and security meetings, announced two remarkable positions before leaving Lebanon. The first is “that the deadline for extraditing wanted persons in the camp is approaching its end, as it ends at the end of this month of September,” after it was previously confirmed that there are no time limits, and the second is “ There is an agreement between Fatah and the Lebanese state to extradite wanted persons in the camp.
Palestinian circles said, “Next week will be decisive in terms of determining the nature of the decision that will be taken regarding the course of matters in the camp, after implementing the first two items in the treatment process, establishing the ceasefire and strengthening the joint security force, which is now ready, awaiting the determination of the third item regarding its deployment or the evacuation of UNRWA schools.” “Or bringing wanted persons, according to the tasks assigned to it in the last meeting held at the Palestinian embassy (Tuesday, September 5) two days before the renewed clashes (Thursday, September 7).”
“Nidaa Al Watan” learned that the “Action Authority” in the Sidon region held a meeting (unannounced) with the Commander of the Security Force, Major General Mahmoud Al-Ajouri, where he detailed the preparations and logistical needs to begin its tasks, after all the factions agreed to supply them with elements and hand over the numbers and names participating in it.
While awaiting the decision, a fragile calm prevails in the camp, despite the full commitment to the ceasefire, while the wounded Abdul Karim Al-Sabaa, who was injured in the clashes and was receiving treatment in Al-Rai Hospital in Sidon, died, bringing the death toll to 28 dead and about 225 wounded since the outbreak of the clashes.
The exodus from the camp continued to worry UNRWA and the Palestinian forces, as people’s hearts were not yet reassured by a safe return due to the tension and dismemberment they were seeing on the ground, the continued military alert, and the establishment of raids, barricades, and guards, while the “Labor Authority” in Lebanon did not call on them to return. and practice their normal lives.
In preliminary statistics, UNRWA announced that “more than 4,000 people were forced to flee due to severe violence and massive destruction in the camp, and it is currently hosting 800 people in four of its shelters (Sidon and Siblin).
2023-09-22 05:09:45
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