The 15-member Liaison Committee is chaired by Norway and sponsored by the United Nations among others. It is responsible for promoting dialogue between donors, the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
“State security agencies will not accept less than the Palestinians full cooperation,” Gen. Shahrour was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
One particularly wanted fugitive, Shadi Mawlawi, is accused of plotting terror attacks, and believed to be hiding in the camp. According to the Lebanese intelligence, Mawlawi is using the camp as a base of operations to plan an attack with the assistance of another wanted extremist, Fadel Shaker.
The pair are also wanted in relation to a 2013 firefight between the army and supporters of a prominent Sunni cleric Ahmed Asir in the Lebanese city of Sidon that left some 17 soldiers dead.
According to Naharnet, Palestinian officials said they would hunt down and hand over the fugitives once there was substantial evidence that they were hiding in the camps.
Ain al-Hilweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon hosting some 70,000 refugees, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. However, the Middle East Monitor said Syrians fleeing the country’s ongoing civil war have also taken refuge in the camp, upping the total estimate to over 120,000 refugees.
