UNSMIL said today that it is extremely concerned about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Tripoli and its surroundings as a result of the intensification of fighting in the past few days.
The President of the Democracy and Human Rights Foundation, Emadeddin Muntasser, has revealed that his foundation has contracted a US law firm in order to sue Khalifa Haftar for airstrikes on the Military College in Tripoli in January 2020.
Libya’s UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) announced on Sunday that it had downed a United Arab Emirates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the north of the country.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Defence, Salah Al-Din Al-Namroush has said the ministry has suspended payment of salaries to military personnel fighting alongside Haftar in his aggression on Tripoli.
Fighting continues to intensify in Libya as General Khalifa Haftar’s forces fired into residential neighbourhoods of the country’s besieged capital with heavy weapons, killing four civilians on Friday, including an elderly man and a teenager, according to Tripoli health officials.
The forces of the internationally-recognised Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) announced on Thursday the deaths of more than 25 members of the Janjaweed militia supporting the forces of retired Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, south of the capital of Tripoli.
Libya’s internationally-recognised government has said its forces have killed eight fighters loyal to eastern-based renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar.
Libyan government forces began a new operation on Saturday to retake the city of Tarhouna, 88 kilometres southeast of the Tripoli, from forces loyal to rogue General Khalifa Haftar.
The war in Libya continues despite multiple calls by the United Nations (UN) and international humanitarian organisations to stop armed clashes, at least temporarily, to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Social media activists circulated reports of a “valuable catch” at the Haftar-controlled Al-Wattia air base in eastern Libya.
