The forces of retired Libyan Major General Khalifa Haftar launched an intense bombardment of Tripoli targeting residential neighborhoods and the civil airport of Maitika, while the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salameh, warned of the development of the conflict in the country into a regional war.

Sources of the island said that today, Friday, forces shelled with missiles several residential areas in the Abu Salim area, in the center of the Libyan capital, which resulted in the injury of a woman and material damage to the houses.

At the same time, dozens of Grad rockets landed on the airport of Maitika in the Friday Market area, and activists reported that the bombing also targeted a hospital located in the vicinity of the airport, and they published pictures showing smoke billowing and ambulances being damaged.

The authorities announced the suspension of navigation at Maitika airport and the transfer of flights to the Misurata city airport (200 km east of Tripoli).

From Geneva, the UN envoy to Libya confirmed that Maitika airport was badly damaged, and said that the bombing of civilian facilities amounted to a war crime.

For its part, said the operation of the anger volcano of the Libyan National Accord government forces that the airport terminal has been evacuated from passengers, and confirmed the airport run over more than 60 Russian-made Grad missiles.

While the Al-Wefaq government forces said that they targeted Haftar forces ’positions in response to the bombing of Tripoli, the Libyan Interior Minister, Fathi Basha’a, in statements to the local February channel, called for launching a wide attack that leads to the expulsion of the attacking forces from the southern suburbs of Tripoli, accusing the mercenaries of the“ Wagner ”Russian security company of being Behind the bombing of the regions of Tripoli today.

Salama condemned the bombing of Haftar civilian facilities in Tripoli (Reuters)

Regional war
In Geneva, where military and political meetings were held between representatives of the retired Major General Khalifa Haftar and the Al-Wefaq government, the international envoy to Libya Ghassan Salama today warned of the possibility of turning the ongoing war in this country into a regional war because of the participation of non-Libyan parties in it.

Salameh strongly condemned the continuation of violence in Libya, and warned against the consequences of the violations of Hifter armistice agreed upon on the twelfth of last January, by bombing vital installations in Tripoli and civilian areas.

The UN envoy said that a new round of political talks between the two parties to the conflict in Libya will be held in Geneva on March 25, and he spoke of a round about holding a new round of military talks between the two parties under the auspices of the United Nations.

For his part, Khaled Al-Mashri, head of the Supreme Council of State in Libya, called on all national forces participating in the Geneva Dialogue to suspend their participation until progress is made on the military track.

Al-Mashri asked, in connection with Al-Jazeera, the usefulness of the political dialogue in light of Haftar's forces continuing to bomb civilian facilities in Tripoli.