Disagreement over the European mission .. Haftar forces bombed the port of Tripoli and targeting a Turkish ship

The forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter escalated their attack on the port of Tripoli on Tuesday, while Ankara announced a provocative shooting towards a Turkish ship without hitting it.

A medical source in the National Accord government said that three civilians were killed and five others were wounded as a result of shells fired by Haftar forces at the Tripoli seaport.

For its part, the Turkish presidency announced that Haftar's forces had opened fire provocatively towards a Turkish ship, without hitting it, indicating that it had responded to the source of the fire.

Meanwhile, the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salameh, warned that the truce in the country is very fragile due to the escalation of attacks on Tripoli and the attacks on the city's port, stressing that there is a violation of the Security Council resolution prohibiting the export of weapons to Libya.

On the other hand, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi de Mayo said that the European monitoring mission of the decision to ban arms exports to Libya will be sea, air and land.

De Mayo added during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Rome that this mission will include satellite surveillance, air patrols, and ships at sea, and if the Libyan parties permit, they will patrol the borders.

De Mayo described the war in Libya as not a civil war, but a proxy war, and that the arrival of weapons to the parties there must be stopped.

Moscow criticizes
For his part, Lavrov criticized the European move to deploy a monitoring force banning the export of arms to Libya, and said that this should go through the Security Council.

In turn, the Libyan Foreign Ministry said that the Al-Wefaq government has repeatedly called for strict implementation of UN Security Council resolutions that have banned the illegal flow of arms into our country for years.

In a statement, she added that the proposed plan by the European Union to ban the flow of arms to Libya will fail in its current form, especially on the land and air borders in the eastern region.

The Foreign Ministry stressed that the internationally recognized Libyan Al-Wefaq government has the right to continue its open military alliances through legitimate channels.

In developments, the National Oil Corporation of Libya announced the urgent evacuation of the Tripoli port from all fuel tankers, and the cancellation of all unloading operations, on the background of its shelling by Haftar forces.

In a statement, the head of the Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanallah, said that the attack that targeted the port of Tripoli almost led to a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe, and that it will have a grave impact on citizens in an overcrowded city such as Tripoli, "as there are no ready facilities in the city to store fuel."

Tuesday's attack represents a new violation by Haftar's forces of a shaky ceasefire, which has been in place since January 12, with a Turkish-Russian initiative.