The troops of retired Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, backed by Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and France, launched a violent offence on Tripoli.

The Head of the Libyan Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj reviewed Monday securing field hospitals against Khalifa Haftar’s offensive on Tripoli with the Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha and deputy minister of health Mohammed Haitham as well as the head of field medical center Tariq Al-Hamshari.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry has asked the Tunisian authorities for coordination before taking any action regarding the Libyan warplane that landed on Monday morning in Mednine.

A Libyan warplane of military commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces made an emergency landing in neighbouring Tunisia on Monday, authorities in Libya said.

Dubbed ‘Zero Hour Attack’, Khalifa Haftar’s second major offensive against Tripoli started early on Monday from over four frontlines in southern Tripoli in an attempt to enter the city center of the Libyan capital. 

Libya’s Sharara oilfield resumed production at half capacity on Monday after being shut down since Friday due to a valve closure, a field engineer said.

Libya’s UN-recognised government said on Saturday it feared forces led by strongman Khalifa Haftar were prepping a new “military escalation” in their months-long push to take Tripoli. Deadly fighting has rocked the capital’s outskirts since Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army launched an offensive on April 4 to take the city from the Governmentof National Accord.

13 fighters loyal to forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar were killed overnight in a drone strike by the Government of National Accord in southern Tripoli, a military source told reporters.

The Tripoli-based House of Representatives (HoR) said Sunday that “renegade Khalifa Haftar” is legally and morally responsible for the kidnapping of the HoR member Siham Sirgiwa.

Political activist Mohamed Fouad said on Thursday that a western country had informed the Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sirraj that Egypt, France and UAE are going to use massive airpower to help Khalifa Haftar’s forces enter Tripoli starting from next Saturday.