The Lebanese army, a branch of the Lebanese Armed Forces, began disarming some of the country’s Palestinian Arab refugee camps on Thursday, regional media reported .

Troops entered the Burj al-Barajneh camp to collect arms and ammunition in what is intended to be the first step of removing weapons from armed Palestinian Arab groups throughout the country and restoring security authority to the control of Lebanon.

The dozen official Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon house more than 200,000 Palestinians and have long hosted members of Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed militias and terrorist groups, who have used the country as a staging ground for attacks on Israel, particularly in the north.

Tom Barrack, U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria w

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