A military source from the Libyan National Accord government forces launched an attack on the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter with heavy and medium weapons in the Yarmouk and Ain Zara axes south of the capital Tripoli.
The source added that Hifter's forces no longer control only some of the limited sites in these two axes. He also pointed to the outbreak of intermittent clashes with medium and heavy weapons from time to time in the mixer axis south of the capital.
This comes at a time when Human Rights Watch accused Hifter and his forces of underestimating the lives of civilians through indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure.
It said Hifter's forces launched a series of unlawful airstrikes that caused civilian casualties, including an attack she described as a "violation of the laws of war" on a house in a residential area of Tripoli on October 14, 2019 that killed three girls and wounded another sister and their mother.
Since April 4, Hifter's forces have launched an assault on Tripoli under the pretext of ending the "militia rule" but have been unable to penetrate the walls of the capital.
The clashes resulted in the deaths of about 1,100 people, including dozens of civilians, and wounded about 6,000 others, while the number of displaced people exceeded 120 thousand people, according to UN agencies.