By RFIPalled on 21-04-2019Modified on 21-04-2019 at 23:10

Nearly three weeks after the start of Khalifa Haftar's offensive on Tripoli, the defenders are holding on. Supporters of Fayez al-Sarraj's national unity government rallied under Operation Volcano of Wrath.

"Volcano of Wrath" is the name of the operation under which fighters linked to the Tripoli-based National Unity Government gathered. But this semantic unity must not hide the heteroclite aspect of his men who fight under the colors of their local brigades.

In this game, the city of Misrata is, once again, the best organized with its best armed militia and the most numerous, but also its logistics, especially medical.

Since Friday, the cardiac center of the city of Tajoura has taken Misratis accents. Specialists in orthopedics, trauma and vascular surgery have arrived from the city of Misrata to manage the part of the hospital dedicated to wounded fighters.

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The wounded belong for the most part to the powerful brigades of Misrata. It is the al-Bunyan al-Marsous coalition, which largely participated in the defeat of the Islamic State organization in Sirte in 2016, which was sent to defend the Wadi Rabi front, south-east of Tripoli and unless 30 km from Tajoura.

In other words, Misrata did not send thousands of men into a hundred brigades to defend Tripoli against Haftar. The city's military council also sent its volunteer doctors.

One of them, Mohamed Amer, agrees that once stabilized, patients are sent to a hospital in Misrata. " We received fifteen patients on Saturday night," he reports. They have different wounds. Two or three were seriously injured and two died. Many patients have been sent to Misrata Hospital. Now there are only five wounded in this hospital. "

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