Hifter opens fire again on the neighborhoods of Tripoli and bombs the International Airport at Mitika

The forces of the Libyan National Accord government announced today, Sunday, that the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar bombed the Maitika International Airport in Tripoli and the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.

"The Haftar terrorist militia continues to bomb repeatedly Grad rockets at the Maitika airport and residential neighborhoods in its vicinity," said a statement released by the media center of the "legitimate anger volcano" of the legitimate government.

The statement pointed out that Haftar's forces also targeted the heavily populated Ain Zara area, south of Tripoli.

The bombing comes less than 24 hours after a European statement calling for a humanitarian truce in Libya, and urges parties to the conflict to resume peace talks.

The statement was signed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy and the senior diplomat of the European Union, saying, "We would like to add our voices to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the acting UN special envoy to Libya, Stephanie Turku Williams, in their call for a humanitarian truce in Libya."

"We call on all Libyan parties to take inspiration from the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan, and to resume talks in order to achieve a real ceasefire," he added.

The conflict in Labiba escalated sharply this month, with fighting erupting on several fronts in the west of the country, despite urgent calls from the United Nations and relief agencies to declare a truce to confront the crisis of the spread of the emerging Corona virus.

It is noteworthy that the European Union launched a new naval and air mission in the eastern Mediterranean, to stop the arrival of more weapons to the warring parties in Libya, but it cannot monitor the land borders between Egypt and Libya through which supplies of artillery pass.

The European Union fears that the conflict will exacerbate turmoil in the region and increase the flow of migrants from the Middle East and Africa. 

For more than a year, Haftar's forces have been trying to storm the capital, Tripoli, where the internationally recognized Al-Wefaq government is based. 

Armed conflict is still raging in Libya, despite nearly 10 years since the overthrow of late President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.