The Accord Forces monitor Haftar's convoys towards Sirte, and an upcoming meeting of the Libyan Parliament in Morocco

The forces of the Government of National Accord in Libya said that they had spotted columns of the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar moving west towards the city of Sirte, while a meeting of the Libyan Parliament is expected to be held today, Monday, in an effort to unify it.

The spokesman for the Sirte and Al-Jufra Operations Room of the Government of National Accord, Brigadier General Abdul Hadi Dara, told Al-Jazeera that these columns move at night in batches from the city of Benghazi, to station in the axes west of the coastal city of Sirte (450 kilometers east of Tripoli).

He expected that the purpose of moving these forces would be an attempt to wave and show strength after Haftar's political failure, or to conduct military maneuvers with live ammunition among his forces, stressing that they include fighters of several nationalities.

The Libyan military commander wondered about the fate of the agreement that was reached in the last meeting of the Joint Military Committee in Sirte on the 12th of this month, which stipulated the beginning of the expulsion of mercenaries and foreign fighters from the targeted area by opening the coastal road and gathering them in Tripoli and Benghazi to leave, at a later stage, the Libyan territories.

The Accord Forces had repeatedly announced the movement of military convoys towards Sirte, which Haftar's forces took control of at the beginning of this year, and after retaking the southern suburbs of Tripoli and the city of Tarhuna in early June, the internationally recognized government forces headed towards Sirte before stopping on its outskirts amid international pressure to prevent The occurrence of a military confrontation in it.

Last October, information was received by the Ministry of Defense in the Government of National Accord about a possible attack by Haftar's forces on the cities of Tarhuna, Gharyan and Bani Walid (western Libya), but a spokesman for Haftar denied at the time that they had planned such an action.

Political

, Anadolu news agency quoted a Libyan deputy as saying that the divided parliament may hold a joint session on Monday in the Moroccan city of Tangiers, as part of the efforts to unify Libyan institutions and reach political solutions to the crisis.

A session of Parliament in Tripoli (Reuters)

The deputy - who refused to disclose his name - said that a preliminary consultative session for members from the two parts of the parliament, who meet separately in Tripoli and Tobruk, was held on Sunday in Tangiers in the presence of 75 deputies from both sides, and discussed the mechanism for unifying the council.

The same deputy expected that the joint session would be held today after the arrival of 30 deputies of the council held in Tobruk, and the meeting would come in response to a Moroccan invitation.

It is noteworthy that the eastern deputies support the majority of Haftar, while the western deputies support the reconciliation government.

The joint session comes a week after the end of the round of Libyan political dialogue, which was held in Tunisia under the auspices of the United Nations, during which Libyan parties agreed to hold elections late next year, while they did not agree, in return, to name the personalities nominated to form a new presidential council.

It is noteworthy that the joint military committee representing the Accord government and Haftar's forces reached on October 23 in Geneva a ceasefire agreement that provides for the withdrawal of mercenaries from Libya within 90 days, and the formation of a joint Libyan military force run by one operations room.

Protest in Benghazi

On the other hand, social networking sites published pictures of the protesters who were wounded by the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar, the Central Bank of Libya branch in Benghazi (eastern Libya).

Local sources from Benghazi told Al-Jazeera that the wounded Haftar's forces, who were injured in the attack on the capital, Tripoli, between April 2019 and June 2020, are protesting against the suspension of their treatment costs and the failure to pay their debts.