Palestinian factions in two refugee camps in Lebanon handed over truckloads of weapons to authorities on Saturday (September 13, 2025) as half of a deal reached earlier this 12 months to take away arms not below Lebanese State management.
The newest switch of weapons, which has been sluggish because it started final month, came about in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, the largest in Lebanon, close to the southern port metropolis of Sidon, and the Beddawi refugee camp close to the northern metropolis of Tripoli.
State-run National News Agency and a Palestinian spokesman stated three vehicles full of weapons from the Beddawi camp have been headed to a Lebanese military barracks inside Tripoli.
The spokesman for the Palestinian National Security Forces in Lebanon, Abdul Hadi al-Assadi, stated in a press release that 5 truckloads of weapons additionally have been handed over at Ein el-Hilweh. He stated the weapons belonged to factions which can be half of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Over the previous few weeks, weapons have been handed over to Lebanese troops in camps in Beirut and the southern province of Tyre.
The 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are usually not managed by the Lebanese State. Ein el-Hilweh, house to just about 75,000 folks, consists of militant Islamic teams that aren’t half of the deal to hand over the weapons. Clashes between members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah group and rival Islamist factions in 2023 left 30 folks useless and a whole bunch wounded.
Palestinian refugees and their ancestors in Lebanon are usually not given citizenship, ostensibly to protect their proper to return to the houses they fled or have been pressured from in the course of the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, which now bans them from returning. They are prohibited from working in most professions, from drugs to the banking sector. Because of restrictions on possession, what little property they’ve is purchased below Lebanese names, leaving them susceptible to embezzlement and expropriation.
