Mahmoud Mohamed-Tripoli
Life has been going normally in Tripoli despite the war on its borders, since retired Major General Khalifa Hifter launched an attack on the city.
Cafes and various shops are full of customers throughout the capital, while the movement is less as it approaches the armed clashes fronts south.
The internationally recognized government of the National Accord (GNA) has fortified the main roads leading to Tripoli east and west.
Traffic patrols and police of the Ministry of Interior are constantly deployed at the entrances and main streets of Tripoli to secure the city.
The United Nations confirms that the Hifter war on Tripoli killed more than a thousand people, including civilians, and hundreds of wounded. About 120,000 people have been forced from their homes.
War is the talk of the hour
Ahmed Ali, an official in one of the cafes in the area of Al-Nofleen in central Tripoli, said the cafe, which witnessed a huge turnout, was not financially affected by Hifter's war on Tripoli.
He added to the island Net, "We are here to open the cafe since the early morning hours and continue to late hours of the night and customers come more than before as if the war is very far from Tripoli."
Ali stressed that the hour talk to most customers in the cafe revolves around war and political developments in succession, where citizens are looking for daily news and events from social networking sites and television channels.
Trade disrupted
As they approached the areas of clashes, bullets and artillery shells increased, but some traders and workers decided to open shops and shops relatively close to these areas, after securing them by the Interior Ministry of the Government of Accord.
"The war reflected negatively on the appetite of customers because of the presence of most families in other areas to which they have been displaced," said Mohamed Trabelsi, a worker at a food store near the clashes.
As they pass near the areas of clashes and camps in the capital, armed vehicles carrying heavy and medium weapons are continuously exiting their headquarters towards the front lines.
Trabelsi, who preferred not to give his full name, said that the prices of food and supplies have not changed much at the same prices despite the previous war, and shops did not face significant problems in providing food to citizens.
Trabelsi said in an interview with the island Net, that mineral drinking water is available in small quantities in the market because of the occurrence of most of the vital factories that supply the capital Tripoli with water in the areas of engagement, causing the closure.
life goes on
Despite the war, government offices and all service institutions, including commercial banks, remained open to citizens, and Tripoli's only airport, Mitiga, continued to operate regularly, with flights only occasionally stopped when shells hit the airport.
For his part, Adel Mohieldin said that life continues in Tripoli, where he goes out daily to enjoy playing sports and playing tennis in the sports city in the area of Qarji in Tripoli.
"My daily routine in Tripoli goes out with the family for a morning breakfast at a seaside café in Andalusia," he added.
Mohieldin stressed that economic reforms carried out by the Wefaq government have revived the economic situation of citizens in Tripoli, especially low-income families.
"We do not know why Hifter waged this war, and what is the goal of shedding all this blood ?! We want to live in peace."
Hifter launched a war on the capital Tripoli on April 4, but he found resistance from the forces of the National Accord government, which failed his plan to control Tripoli.
Nondestructive scheme
The commander of the volcano company forces of reconciliation government Abdullah al-Kebti that Hifter forces if it reached the areas of central Tripoli would have destroyed, as it did in the city of Benghazi and Derna, eastern Libya.
Al-Kebti told Al Jazeera Net, "We are happy that citizens in Tripoli go out daily in security and safety despite the war near their areas."
Al-Kibti explained that the goal of the Wefaq government forces is to secure Tripoli and preserve the civil state for the values and sacrifices of the heroes from the February 17 revolution until the revolution achieves its full goals.