The spokesman for Sirte Al-Jafra Operations, Brigadier General Abdul Hadi Dara, said that Haftar's forces are digging a trench in the thirty area west of the city of Sirte, 4 kilometers long, at a time when the Mufti of Libya called for a reciprocal response to the UAE because it is an aggressor country.
Drah confirmed, in a press briefing, that the Government of National Accord forces monitored the arrival of two cargo planes to Benghazi, eastern Libya, coming from the Syrian city of Lattakia.
For his part, the Grand Mufti of Libya, Sheikh Al-Sadiq Al-Gharyani, described the UAE as the aggressor country, and said that its attacks must be responded to by similar attacks, and not to be satisfied with severing relations with it.
Al-Gharyani called on the Presidential Council to support the brigades in the south in order to defend Libya, in the face of the UAE's attempts to control gold resources in the region, he said.