Libyan Supreme Council Chairman Khaled al-Mashri rejected Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s statements regarding his threat of direct military intervention in Libya, and the Presidential Council of the reconciliation government described al-Sisi's remarks as a declaration of war. On the other hand, the Libyan Speaker of Parliament, Tobruk Aqila Saleh, welcomed Sisi’s statements.

Al-Mashri described Al-Sisi's statements yesterday as a violation of sovereignty and blatant interference in the Libyan issue, and the Presidential Council of the internationally recognized government of National Accord issued a statement that he called the statement of the State of Libya, in which he denounced the Egyptian president's threat to intervene militarily in the Libyan crisis, describing it as rejected and hostile.

The Presidential Council said that "whatever the disagreement between the Libyans, we will not allow insulting our people and using the language of threat and intimidation. Libya is all a red line and the red lines are defined by the blood of the martyrs and not fiery statements."

Statement of the state of Libya pic.twitter.com/ef6u0BtqtN

- GNA Media (@GovernmentLY) June 21, 2020

Sisi had signaled his country's military intervention in Libya if the forces loyal to the Al-Wefaq government continued to advance towards Sirte, and said that "crossing the Sirte line or Al-Jafra this is a red line for us," in a sign of the Al-Wefaq government’s efforts to regain control of the two areas from the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter.

State power

In response to Al-Sisi, the Presidential Council of the Al-Wefaq government stressed that "it is only who determines the place and time of military operations for the extension of state authority throughout the country," calling on the Egyptian authorities to pay attention to their problems and security threats within their territories.

On the other hand, the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament in Tobruk Aqila Saleh welcomed Al-Sisi's statements, saying that Al-Sisi's speech came in response to his call before the Egyptian parliament at the beginning of the year for the Egyptian army to intervene in Libya, to support what he described as foreign interference and the war on terrorism.

Saleh appreciated al-Sisi's efforts to stop the ceasefire in Libya, and to launch a political dialogue leading to satisfactory solutions. Saleh's wife, Aqila, described the presidential council of the Al-Wefaq government as out of mandate and expired and lost consensus.

The Arab League

In a related issue, the League of Arab States announced today that it was decided to hold the emergency meeting via the Internet at the level of foreign ministers tomorrow Monday, to discuss developments in the situation in Libya. On Friday, the League’s General Secretariat received a request from Egypt to hold the emergency meeting, in which the Al-Wefaq government announced that it would not participate.

On the other hand, the leader of the Yemeni Houthi group, Muhammad Ali Al Houthi, said - in a tweet on Twitter - that he advised the Egyptian leadership not to intervene militarily in Libya even if it was the result of concern about the Turkish presence there, and
added that "attrition in these battles does not work and what will be presented will be Fatigued if not more. "

# Operation_Berk_Anger: video showing an L39 warplane belonging to the Haftar terrorist militia after an emergency landing near the border between # Libya and # Niger # victorious_Tripoli # Sirte_backback # We will not go back to restrictions # Libya pic.twitter.com/UuzSzMwaL3

- Media Center for Operation Anger Volcano (@BurkanLy) June 21, 2020

airplane falling

On the field level, the Al-Wefaq government, Volcano Anger Operation, published photos of an emergency landing of a "Sukhoi L39" warplane belonging to Haftar forces near the Libyan border with the State of Niger.

In Tripoli, the media advisor to the Ministry of Health in the Government of Al-Wefaq, Amin al-Hashemi, said that 25 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded by medical teams, due to air strikes and artillery shelling of their workplaces during the war in the capital, Tripoli, for more than a year.

Al-Hashemi added, in a testimony before the General Freedoms and Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives held in Tripoli, that Haftar's forces carried out what he described as the systematic destruction of field hospitals and health facilities for months.

On a separate matter, the head of the city council of Tarhuna, Muhammad al-Koshar, said that he decided to dissolve and cancel the Council of the Tarhuna Elders, which was controlled by Saleh al-Fandi, who supports the retired brigade, Khalifa Hifter.

The Al-Wefaq government forces had regained control of the city of Tarhuna - located south of the capital - from Haftar’s forces, and the city was a stronghold and a gathering place for the forces attacking the southern areas of Tripoli for the past months before being expelled by the Al-Wefaq forces a few weeks ago.