The Libyan Southern Protection Force (FPR) loyal to the reconciliation government announced the killing of its general military commander Hassan Moussa Tabawi in an air strike by a foreign air supporter of Khalifa Hifter.
Security sources from the internationally recognized national reconciliation government told Al Jazeera that Hassan Moussa was killed in an airstrike by a French drone that targeted his motorcade in the vicinity of the town of Um El Rabbane in southern Libya.
Moussa is one of the most prominent military leaders of the Libyan Tabu tribes, and the most prominent anti-Haftar rebel leaders in southern Libya.
On Friday, civilians from the Tabu tribes were killed in a Hifter raid on the southern town of Umm al-Rabbani.
Local sources said the raid was carried out by a drone that targeted the Chinese company district in the town south of the city of Sabha.
The sources added that among the dead seven children between the ages of seven and 15 years, pointing out that most of the population of the targeted neighborhood displaced from areas in southern Libya.
Tabu activists posted on Facebook posted a video showing the bodies of children bloodied or burned at the site of the bombing.
In exchange for local sources confirming the targeting of civilians in Umm al-Rabbani, Ahmed al-Mesmari, spokesman for the so-called Libyan National Army led by Hifter, talked about raids on gunmen belonging to an armed group of the Tabu tribes south of the city of Ubari after trying to seize the oil fields elephant and spark.
Al-Mesmari said that the raids on the project "Maknusa" agricultural resulted in the destruction of 25 armed vehicles and the killing of dozens of what he described as terrorist elements.