Sicurezza e campi profughi palestinesi in Libano non sono mai stati sinonimi. Eppure Fath, il partito del presidente dell’Autorità nazionale palestinese Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen), e Hamas, il movimento palestinese staccatosi dall’orbita siro-iraniana, corrono ai ripari e cercano di adattarsi ai graduali cambiamenti regionali.
Un esempio è quanto sta avvenendo nel campo di Ain al Helwe, nei pressi di Sidone, 40 km a sud di Beirut, che è il più affollato agglomerato di rifugiati. Leggiamo il resoconto dello scorso 10 aprile del giornale anglofono libanese The Daily Star circa la ristrutturazione della rete di “sicurezza” in mano a Fath. Interessante a proposito, i legami che emergono tra potere locale, territorio e rapporti familiari.
The Palestinian National Security forces assumed command of a checkpoint in Ain al-Hilweh Monday that was previously controlled by a small Fatah faction led by Munir Maqdah in a process of assuming all headquarters and checkpoints.
At the order of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, both the Palestinian Armed Struggle headed by Mahmoud Issa, known as Lino, and Maqdah’s faction in Ain al-Hilweh were dissolved and integrated into the new National Security forces led by Maj. Gen. Sobhi Abu Arab as a first step toward unifying Fatah security forces in all refugee camps in Lebanon.
The newly established force began the process two weeks ago. Maqdah handed over Monday a checkpoint based near his faction’s headquarters and his residence in the area of Bustan al-Yahoudi.
The checkpoint was previously controlled by the Deir Yassin contingent headed by Maqdah’s brother, known as Tawwous, and the Hasan Abu Salameh contingent of the National Security Forces that took over is led by Mahmoud Armoushi.
Despite Lino and Maqdah’s public commitment to Abbas’ decision, Maqdah delayed handing over this particular checkpoint until he received guarantees that his brother’s contingent would be integrated into Armoushi’s and remain at its location.
According to Palestinian sources, phone calls were made to the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah which led to the decisions to preserve the role of Tawwous’ contingent on the condition that it merge with Armoushi’s contingent and answer directly to Abu Arab.
After supervising the handover process, Abu Arab said that all checkpoints previously controlled by the Palestinian Armed Struggle in Ain al-Hilweh had been handed over to the National Security Forces calmly and without any obstacles or disputes.
“Now the checkpoint of Fatah’s General Headquarters has been handed over and, in doing this, we have finished the process of integration in all camps,” Abu Arab said. “In the next stage, we have to work to preserve security in the camp. We don’t have a problem with anyone and we will be in communication with everyone to ensure all children, women and elderly in the camp are safe.”