The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC) have reportedly been conducting drills with medium-range weapons and missiles on Saturday at their base in Qousaya in Bekaa, near the Lebanese Syrian borders

Security source have reportedly heard echoes of artillery, rockets, and anti-aircraft guns in the area, but PFLP-GC official Ramez Mustafa denied conducting any military exercises during an interview with New TV.

PFLP-GC like all the armed militant Palestinian factions operating outside the Refugee camps are backed and supplied by Syria

Fatah al-Intifada , another ally of Syria outraged the Lebanese last week when its leader Abou Moussa declared that he refuses to disarm.