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February 13, 2020 Rockets launched at Mitiga airport, the only one operating in Tripoli. Suspended flights and passengers in panic. Others have affected the agricultural and residential areas of Mashrou Al-Hadhba, which are located about 30 kilometers south of the city center. There would be dead and injured.

It is the chronicle of violations of the fragile truce in Libya, in the aftermath of the UN Security Council resolution calling on the parties to the war in Libya to commit to "a lasting ceasefire". To confirm the suspension of flights to Mitiga is the Deputy Minister of Transport of the Tripoli government, Hisham Abu Shikawat, who spoke with Al Ahrar TV.

The Libya Observer, reports of violent clashes between the forces of General Khalifa Haftar and those of the Tripoli national agreement government. The spokesman for the GNA forces, the executive recognized by the United Nations, confirmed the fighting in some areas mainly scattered with farms.

The spokesman, Mustafa al-Mejii, accused the forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar of having again violated the ceasefire in effect since 12 January. "The Haftar militia tried to advance in the Mashrou al-Hadhba area - he said - but our forces have repelled the attack."

UN figures
According to the UN despite the truce, every day there is shooting around Tripoli and weapons continue to arrive in the country. To date, the clashes have caused more than 1,000 deaths and 140,000 displaced people.

NATO ready to intervene
NATO also intervenes on Libya. "We are not on the ground in Libya, but we firmly support" the efforts led by the UN to find a negotiated solution. "The secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, spoke at the press conference on the sidelines of the two-day meeting of the defense ministers of the Alliance. "We are ready to help Libya - he said - with capacity building, if the Libyans ask for it and if the conditions are there."

The meeting Di Maio and Haftar
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio met with Libyan general Khalifa Haftar at his headquarters in al-Rajma, south of Benghazi. The minister arrived in Benghazi after visiting Tripoli yesterday, where he had talks with the Prime Minister of the national agreement government, Fayez al Sarraj, and the Minister of the Interior, Fathi Bashaga.