2023-09-12 06:21:26
Fatah and Islamist fighters did not wait for the end of the meeting called for by the Acting Director General of Public Security, Elias al-Bisari, and which included representatives of the Palestinian factions, before they resumed the fire in Ain al-Hilweh. The meeting, whose recommendations were known in advance, most notably an immediate ceasefire, was held to the sound of the whizzing of bullets and the sound of shells on the “fronts” of Jabal al-Halib, Hattin, Tira, Safsaf, Ras al-Ahmar, Emergency, and the school complex, all the way to the city of Sidon and its environs. What was new in the battles of the fifth day of the second round of the Fatah-Muslim Youth clash was the entry into the Taytaba neighborhood and the cinema neighborhood on the line of axes.
After the failure of the efforts of the army, the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee, the Amal Movement, and MP Osama Saad to establish a ceasefire, it seemed that the same fate awaited the General Security attempt, before the “supervisor of the Lebanese arena” in Fatah, Azzam Al-Ahmad, arrived in Beirut yesterday to follow up on the events. The largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon. Al-Akhbar learned that Al-Ahmad will meet with Prime Minister Najib Mikati and leaders in the army and public security to present Ramallah’s point of view on the movement’s battle once morest the “Islamists” in Ain al-Hilweh. According to a Palestinian source, “Al-Ahmad carries a message from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stating that Fatah will not leave the camps to be tampered with by Takfiris, and it is continuing its battle to eradicate terrorism in compliance with its duty towards the Palestinian people.” Abu Mazen’s message also includes a warning that “continuous pressure by the state on Fatah to stop fighting may push the movement to leave the camps permanently, and let the Lebanese state and the rest of the Palestinian factions bear responsibility for the growth of terrorist cells that threaten the camps and outside them.”
Before the General Security meeting, a delegation from Fatah visited the Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun. According to follow-up sources, the visit came at the request of the movement “to cordon off the followingmath of the targeting of an army center in Jabal al-Halib the day before yesterday, following videos showed that shells were fired from one of Fatah’s centers.” The sources quoted Aoun as saying to the Palestinian Ambassador Ashraf Dabour and the Secretary of Fathi, Fathi Abu Al-Ardat, in the presence of the Director of Intelligence, Brigadier General Tony Kahwaji, that “the state will not give Fatah a new deadline following its failure to achieve an achievement once morest the Islamists and the battles are expanding to all parts of the camp instead of… Confining the battle to the emergency, where the Takfiris are stronghold.” Aoun was decisive that Fatah “must adhere to the ceasefire following the fragments of the fighting reached outside Ain al-Hilweh.”
All Palestinian factions responded to Al-Bisari’s invitation to discuss the events in the camp. After repeated absences, the Islamic forces came through Ibrahim Al-Saadi (the son of one of the founders of the Islamic “Ansar League,” Abu Muhjen), who represented the “League” and the “Mujahid Islamic Movement.” The importance attached to yesterday’s meeting prompted these forces to suspend their abstention from participating in coordination meetings in their capacity as a negotiating channel with the “Muslim youth,” in protest once morest the security restrictions imposed by the army and public security on their wanted leaders. According to sources participating in the meeting, Al-Bisari “spoke in a high-pitched speech expressing the state’s anger at what is happening in Ain al-Hilweh and affecting its Lebanese surroundings.” He did not exclude any of the factions, including Fatah, Hamas, and the League, from his criticism, due to their inability to control matters. He called for “an immediate ceasefire, otherwise we will resort to punitive measures once morest those involved in the factions because of their failure to maintain security.” He recalled the “administrative and logistical powers possessed by Public Security in the Palestinian issue,” stressing that “the army has an executive force to impose security, and is ready to use it, and the state will not remain a spectator of the chaos taking place.” Among the recommendations, in addition to stopping the fighting, it was decided to form a new committee from Fatah, Hamas and the League to monitor the establishment of the ceasefire and another committee to follow up on the extradition of wanted persons.
Al-Bisari’s words stirred tension between some factions, especially Fatah and Hamas, as the Hamas representative attacked Fatah, accusing it of destroying the camp, while the Fatah representative indicated that the movement “took the initiative to hand over the wanted persons, and not like the Islamists in Ain al-Hilweh who evade handing over the killers of Major General Abu Ashraf.” Al-Armushi and his companions.
This tension was reflected on the field following the meeting in the intensification of the battles, following Fatah placed all Islamists, regardless of their sects, in one basket. According to Fatah data, “All Islamists are now fighting us openly, not just the remnants of Fatah al-Islam and Jund al-Sham: Muhammad Jumaa (known as Abu Jana) leads the Abdullah Azzam Brigades group, and Abu al-Abd al-Tarabulsi leads the group of Tripolitans who took refuge in Ain al-Hilweh with Shadi al-Mawlawi, as well as Ansar. Ahmed Al-Asir and some of those loyal to Al-Nusra and ISIS, in addition to the groups of Muhammad Al-Arifi, Osama Al-Shehabi, Mahmoud Mansour, and Abd Hourani, in addition to the supreme leader of them all, Tawfiq Taha.” Fatah leaders find that the Palestinian National Security Forces achieved an achievement on the ground “in that they stood firm and did not allow the Islamists to achieve gains through field progress, especially in the Al-Tira neighborhood, which Bilal Badr is seeking to regain following being expelled from it in 2017.” Meanwhile, Hamas issued a statement denying the accusations of its support for the Islamists in the face of Fatah.
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