Palestinian president in Lebanon to discuss disarmament of refugee camps

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was in Beirut on Wednesday for talks expected to include the disarmament of Palestinian refugee camps as Lebanon seeks to impose its authority on all its territory.

It is Abbas’s first visit since 2017 to Lebanon, which hosts hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, 222,000 of them in overcrowded camps beyond the control of the Lebanese authorities.

State media images showed Abbas arriving at the presidential palace and meeting President Joseph…