Libya's Grand Mufti, Al-Sadiq Al-Gharyani, advised that it is not permissible to buy goods from countries that support retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, considering that every dollar paid to these countries is a "bullet in the chest of our sons", amid calls for trying these forces with war crimes before the International Criminal Court.
Gharyani attributed this to the fact that "trading with them is strengthening for them, and every dollar that we pay for them is a bullet in the chest of our children."
Last February, the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Libya, resident UN coordinator Jacob Al-Helou, accused countries including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Russia of being behind the plane attacks of Khalifa Haftar's forces in the country.
For his part, Libyan delegate to the United Nations, Taher Al-Sunni, expressed his surprise on Friday whether the International Criminal Court needs evidence of "criminalization" of Haftar's forces, after finding 8 mass graves in the city of Tarhuna, southeast of the capital, Tripoli.
"In Tarhuna, 8 mass graves and bodies of families and individuals from the city were found dumped in wells and containers, some of whom were buried alive," Sunni said in a tweet via his Twitter account.
He added, "Whoever was killed in those massacres was during the control of the Haftar militias over the city. Who is still talking about a dialogue with this war criminal ?! And does the International Criminal Court need further evidence against it?"
"Safe country"
And patrols belonging to the Libyan Ministry of the Interior, on Friday evening, spread in areas south of the capital, Tripoli, to establish security and arrest the outlaws.
According to the media center for the "Volcano of Wrath" operation on its Facebook page, the spread of security patrols included the areas of "Ain Zara" and "Wadi Al-Rabi" and their suburbs.
The center added that the security deployment in Tripoli and the liberated cities comes within the framework of the "safe country" operation launched by the Ministry of Interior recently.
The "safe country" operation aims to maintain security, pursue the wanted perpetrators, and protect the lives, livelihoods, and property of citizens. As a first stage, it targets cities and areas that the Libyan army freed from Haftar's forces.
"Useful" aspects
Politically, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Schenker said there were "useful" aspects in an Egyptian proposal for a truce in Libya.
On Saturday, Egypt called for a cease-fire, as part of an initiative that also proposed an elected leadership council. Turkey rejected the proposal, saying the plan was aimed at saving Haftar after his attack failed.
While Washington says it opposes the Haftar attack, it has not thrown its weight behind the Tripoli government. A senior State Department official, Schenker, expressed his rejection of the Egyptian proposal.
"We believe that there are useful aspects of the initiative, but we see that the process led by the United Nations and the Berlin process are really, the most constructive frameworks, for making progress towards the ceasefire," he added.