Al-Lino: 120 Want to Leave Ain el-Hilweh under Hizbullah-Nusra Deal
Twenty-seven Lebanese nationals are among 120 people who have registered their names to leave the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp for Syria’s Idlib as part of a deal reached between Hizbullah and the jihadist al-Nusra Front group, a top Fatah Movement official has said.
“Until now, no official authorization has been given for the exit of any fugitive from the Ain el-Hilweh camp,” Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Issa, aka al-Lino, added in a TV interview.
He noted that the Lebanese side has rejected the transfer to Idlib of any fugitive involved in terrorist acts in Lebanon.
The Hizbullah-Nusra agreement got underway on Sunday with the exchange of bodies of fighters between the two groups and an exchange of captives is expected at a later stage.
The agreement follows several days of fighting in the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Arsal and the Syrian town of Flita that saw Hizbullah seize control of much of the region.
The battles ended with a ceasefire Thursday to allow negotiations to proceed to send the Nusra fighters -- who are now encircled in a small pocket of territory -- and their families to Syria's northwest Idlib province, Nusra’s Syria bastion.
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