What is FPLP-GC up to in Lebanon?

By Olivier Guitta

While there was a second attack on the UNIFIL soldiers in Southern Lebanon and Hezbollah is playing dumb, not knowing who is behind the attacks.
This is all the more surprising that Hezbollah is still very much in charge of the south and literally nothing happens without it being aware of it.
Another pro-Syrian terrorist group could be behind these attacks: the FPLP-GC.

What is FPLP-GC up to?
The Croissant partially answered this question:

Lebanese fear that Syria ordered its agents in Lebanon, in particular Fatah Intifada [FI] and Ahmed Jibril’s FPLP-GC, to start a third front [after Nahr el Bared (Northern Lebanon) and Ain Al Helwi (Southern Lebanon)] against the Lebanese army, around Qosaya in Eastern Bekaa [Southern Lebanon].
This was done in response to the failure of the second front.
In fact, Lebanese authorities fear that the failure of Jund Al Sham to open a new front in Ain El Helwi will push FPLP-GC and its new recruits to enter the arena
- this all the more since Fatah and other PLO factions are very present in Ain El Helwi, contrary to Nahr el Bared where they were totally crushed by the Syrian army in the mid-80’s; they could rein in Jund Al Sham and thus prevent total unrest inside the camp.

Also, Beirut takes very seriously the information relating to the offensive apparatus put in place by the Palestinian bases located on the border with Syria:
In Qosaya, the FPLP-GC has welcomed in its ranks fighters from the “Al Yarmuk brigade”; the latter is based in Syria and is part of the Army of Liberation of Palestine.

Finally, in the same area, i.e. between Halwa and Wadi Al Anbar, on June 4, Lebanese security forces arrested eight Iraqi, Syrians and Sudanese citizens along with their guide; they were trying to clandestinely join the Palestinian camps. Finally last month, 15 other foreign fighters were arrested in this area.

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