Former MP Walid Jumblatt visited Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh on Sunday afternoon.
At the end of the meeting, Jumblatt said that the situation in the Palestinian camp of Ain el-Helweh is “more or less under control,” then adding, “We didn’t understand the embassies’ concerns.”
“I am surprised by the embassies’ statements, which are not justified from a security point of view,” Berri also declared in a televised interview.
He added, “Limiting the warnings to the areas near Ain el-Helweh, where the clashes were located, would have been understandable, but the call for nationals to leave is not.”
As a reminder, six Gulf countries called on their nationals in Lebanon to exercise caution and “stay away from areas experiencing security unrest” this weekend. The two kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain went even further and asked their citizens to leave Lebanon.
Violent clashes between Islamist groups and Fatah, the main Palestinian organization led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, broke out on July 29 in Ain el-Helweh, the largest Palestinian camp in Lebanon.
