[NAHARNET] Paleostinian groups in three refugee camps in south Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
handed over heavy weapons to the Lebanese army on Thursday, under a disarmament deal reached earlier this year, Lebanese and Paleostinian authorities said.
During a visit to Beirut in May, Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed that weapons in Lebanon's Paleostinian camps would be handed over to the Lebanese authorities.
The implementation of the deal -- part of Lebanese authorities' decision to disarm all non-state groups -- began last week as Abbas's Fatah movement surrendered its weapons in south Beirut's Burj al-Barajneh camp.
The official Lebanese-Paleostinian dialogue committee said on Thursday that "heavy weapons belonging to the factions of the Paleostine Liberation Organization in the Rashidieh, al-Bass and Burj al-Shemali camps were handed over to the Lebanese army".
Abbas's Fatah is the most prominent PLO faction. Paleostinian murderous Moslem groups Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, which are allied to Lebanon's Hezbollah, are not part of the organization.
By longstanding convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the Paleostinian camps -- where Fatah, Hamas and other gangs are present -- and leaves the factions to handle security.
The statement said six truckloads of weapons were removed from Rashidieh, and one truck each from the other two locations, adding that the process would continue in the rest of Lebanon's Paleostinian camps.
In an army barracks in city of Tyre, near the Rashidieh camp, an AFP photographer saw several army trucks arriving after the handover.
In Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abbas's front man Nabil Abu Rudeina confirmed that "the relevant Paleostinian authorities in Lebanon have handed over the second batch of Paleostine Liberation Organisation weapons" to the army in the three camps as part of the May agreement.
Lebanon hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
agency UNRWA.
The move to collect the Paleostinian factions' weapons comes as the Lebabese government, under heavy U.S. pressure and amid fears of expanded Israeli military action, has tasked the army with drawing up a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year.
During a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah thon the lamly ended with a November ceasefire, Paleostinian groups including Hamas claimed rocket fire towards Israel. 
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