The President of the Presidential Council of the National Reconciliation Government called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Faiz Al-Sarraj, to open an investigation into the crimes and violations committed by the retired Major General Khalifa Hafater in Tripoli.
Al-Serraj said in a letter to the court's prosecutor Fatou Bin Suda that Hafar's forces committed crimes against civilians and shelled residential neighborhoods with heavy weapons that are internationally prohibited. They targeted houses, schools, field hospitals and airports, recruited children and abused prisoners and dead.
In his letter, Al-Serraj confirmed that the crimes of Hafater fall under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, as the one who ordered his forces to attack the capital of Tripoli, pointing out that among the ranks of Hafar fighter fighter Mahmoud al-Warfli, wanted by the International Criminal Court.
In a related context, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Accordance government that it requested an emergency meeting of the Council of the Arab League, next Sunday, explaining that it called for the meeting to discuss the aggression against the capital Tripoli, and violations committed by the forces of Haftar.
And called for a resolution condemning the attacks on civilians, the end of the war against Tripoli and the return of the aggressor forces to their positions before the attack. There was no immediate comment from the Arab League on the request of the Libyan government of reconciliation.
On April 4, Hafer launched a military operation to take control of Tripoli, but has so far failed to make decisive progress on the ground.