Three civilians were injured due to the fall of missile shells fired by the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar on the Friday market area and at Maitika airport, east of the Libyan capital.
Amin al-Hashemi, media advisor to the Ministry of Health in the National Accord Government, said that three civilians, including an African worker, were injured after targeting neighborhoods around the airport in Maitika.
He explained that a missile attack by the Haftar militia targeted other residential neighborhoods, which he did not specify.
Concurrently, the media center of the government’s “Anger Volcano” operation published photos showing part of the effects of the bombing of the Haftar militia that targeted residential houses in the vicinity of the Maitika airport and the Arada area.
# Operation_Berkan_Anger: photos showing part of the effects of the fall of more than 30 Grad rockets fired by the Haftar terrorist militia on citizens ’homes shortly before targeting the vicinity of the Maitika airport and the Arada region in the capital # Tripoli # Storm _ Peace # Aggression _ on _ Tripoli # Haftar_Krona_Libya # We will not go back to the restrictions # Libya pic.twitter.com/HO - Anger Volcano Operation Media Center (@BurkanLy) April 22, 2020 |
A brief statement to the media center said that more than thirty Grad rockets were fired by Haftar militias at citizens ’homes.
On the other hand, Richard Norland, the US ambassador to Libya, said that his country wants to see an end to the armed conflict as soon as possible in order to alleviate the suffering and enable the authorities to focus on confronting the threat to public health in Libya.
This came in an online communication between Norland and the Secretary-General of the Libyan Red Crescent Society, Mari Al-Idrisi, discussed the effects of the repercussions of the armed conflict on civilians. Corona Novel.
Observers believe that the intensification of Haftar's attacks on the Maitika airport and neighborhoods in Tripoli comes to compensate for the heavy losses suffered by the forces of the government of reconciliation recently, most notably the loss of the cities of the western coast up to the Tunisian border.
watched The damage caused by the bombing of Haftar militia on the homes of civilians in the capital # Tripoli # Altansah pic.twitter.com/COyUmOfnKc - Al Tanasheh Channel (@TanasuhTV) April 22, 2020 |
Although Haftar's forces announced last March 21 that they agreed to a truce to focus on anti-Corona efforts, they have continued to bomb neighborhoods in Tripoli from time to time.
For its part, the internationally recognized government of Al-Wefaq launched a military "peace storm" operation on March 26 against Haftar forces, which have been trying for nearly a year to control the capital.