BEIRUT – Palestinian authorities President Mahmoud Abbas is visiting Beirut ahead of the upcoming visit of President Donald Trump’s Deputy Envoy of West Asia, Morgan Ortags.
Sources said Palestinian Ambassador to Beirut Ashraf Dubbar had indicated that President Joseph Own had expressed his desire to not hold a press conference in advance.
Abbas reportedly will meet with Lebanese officials during his three-day visit to discuss mechanisms for the Lebanese state to expand full control over the entire territory, particularly the Palestinian camp, and to dismantle Palestinian military infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the date of Ortagus’ visit could be made at the end of next week or early next month in parallel with a distributive provocative statement that “a huge wave of transformation and change is about to clean up.”
According to sources, Ortags has a list of strict US conditions to encourage Lebanon to participate in normalisation contracts with Tel Aviv as a condition for Israel’s withdrawal and to encourage Lebanon to a normalisation contract with Tel Aviv as a complete halt of the ongoing US-led Israeli attacks.
Sources added that Ortagus’ visits will resolve the issue of Lebanese Palestinians, as they are happening in Syria or in urging Lebanese authorities to resettle them and stop treating them as refugees.
Lebanon’s Supreme Defence Council recently warned Hamas against using Lebanese territory to launch rockets towards occupied Palestinian territory.
According to information circulated, Lebanese security services have called on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which already suffer from fragmentation of the organization, to coordinate with the remaining Palestinian factions.
However, 77 years after the catastrophe of the forced displacement to Lebanon, Palestinian refugees wanted to deal with their humanitarian and living tragedy, especially amid a systematic freeze on relief services for the UN Relief and Worker-Provided Relief Agency (UNRWA) that has been long provided for Palestinian refugees in the Near East.
The problem is not regulating Palestinian weapons in Lebanese camps. Because the majority of displaced people suffer greatly under Fatah’s inflammatory policies.
Rather, the main concern relates to natural civil rights. President Joseph Own has pledged to preserve it. Will the Lebanese state ultimately maintain the dignity of the Palestinians on its land, alienating them and stopping them from treating them as sixth citizens?
Services are natural human rights, and Palestinians are merely Lebanese guests until return to Palestine is achieved and should not resettle anything!
It is shameful that Mahmoud Abbas is nothing more than a political bargain in favour of the Israeli occupation regime.