The Kataeb political bureau held a meeting, and after discussing the developments in the south and the region and the movement of envoys towards Lebanon, it issued a statement noting a clear discrepancy between the official stance, which the Prime Minister is supposed to represent, rejecting Lebanon becoming a host country for displaced persons and urging the European Union to review its policies regarding this crisis and work towards returning the displaced to their homeland as most areas in Syria have become safe, and the position of the President of the European Commission, who clearly expressed a package of aid aimed at combating the smuggling of migrants to Europe from Lebanese shores, indicating that the primary concern is to prevent the leakage of Syrians into Europe.
The statement demanded that the government "transparently and clearly disclose the content of the agreement made on behalf of the Lebanese without their knowledge of its implications on their lives and existence" and insisted that the political bureau reveals the practical steps that the government will take to prevent the integration of Syrians in Lebanon.
The bureau noted that "the damage inflicted on southern villages is escalating daily, compounded by the ongoing frivolous distractions led by Hezbollah, which intimidates residents and prevents them from disclosing the extent of the losses to their livelihoods after dozens of villages have been levelled to the ground and refuses to acknowledge the miserable conditions resulting from displacement, loss of harvests, and destruction of land by phosphorus, all of which cannot be compensated for in years."
It added, "This grip on the livelihoods of the country and the lives of its citizens, as well as the engagement with the Lebanese and the world in a tone of the victor while rejecting ceasefire papers from multiple parties, is only paid for by Lebanon in terms of its security, economy, and stability, making it the biggest loser in the game of obstinacy led by a party seeking to keep Lebanon hostage to negotiate over it beyond Gaza."
The bureau also pointed out that "Lebanon is witnessing a complete unraveling of moral systems unlike anything experienced before during its most arduous times due to the total collapse of the state's controlling concept, the deterrent authority of law, and the absence of any form of power, manifesting in the emergence of gangs violating the rights and lives of people through prostitution networks, child sexual abuse, and horrific daily crimes."
It concluded by stating that "this abnormal and strange phenomenon to our society, which security forces struggle to combat, will not cease until the state is reinstated to resume its protective and safeguarding role, allowing Lebanese citizens to organize themselves in a homeland for which they have sacrificed their most precious assets."
