The Libyan government forces announced today, Friday, that its air force carried out four strikes targeting the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar at Al-Wattia Air Force Base.
This came in a statement made by Mustafa Al-Mujie, spokesman for the media center for the Operation Volcano Anger, which is affiliated with the internationally recognized government of National Accord.
Al-Majei said that the air force carried out four strikes targeting the positions and mechanisms of Haftar militias inside and around the base of Al-Wattia, 160 km southwest of the capital, Tripoli.
In the context, pages of social communication close to Haftar confirmed the killing of three members of his forces, and said that they were killed in the air strikes on Al-Wattia base, all of them from the city of Sabratha.
Al-Wattayah is the largest military base in the region extending from western Tripoli to the Tunisian border. It was controlled by forces loyal to Haftar six years ago, and made it a center for commanding Western operations and a point for mobilizing forces coming from the Libyan east. It is also used to bomb a number of Tripoli areas.
Shelling in Ramadan
On the other hand, three civilians were killed and three others were injured at the dawn of the first days of Ramadan in Libya, as a result of shelling of Haftar forces on the capital, Tripoli, according to a medical source.
In a statement to the media advisor to the Ministry of Health in the Government of National Accord, Amin Al Hashemi, he said that one of the dead was from sub-Saharan Africa (without specification).
Al-Hashemi added that the wounded who were killed in the bombing are now receiving treatment, without explaining the severity of their injuries.
Although the Haftar militia announced on March 21 that it had agreed to a truce to focus on anti-Corona efforts, it was continuing an offensive that began on April 4, 2019, to seize Tripoli, the seat of the National Accord government.