At least ten people were injured including four children when Haftar’s militias pounded Arada neighborhood on Saturday, the Volcano of Rage Operation has said.
The bombing was intense and severe damage was caused to citizens’ homes and property. Souq Al Jumm’aa area and neighborhoods near Mitiga Airport were also targeted by scores of Grad rockets on Saturday.
The Libyan Army forces under the command of the Government of National Accord (GNA) launched Saturday an all-out offensive on Tarhouna city, which is Khalifa Haftar forces’ main foothold in west Libya. GNA forces said they had seized and destroyed a number of military vehicles and captured several fighters from Haftar’s forces as they made massive advances toward Tarhouna.
Libya Observer reports the spokesman for the Libyan Army Mohammed Gununu saying that the Tarhouna offensive, part of Operation Peace Storm, had led to the killing of many fighters from Haftar’s forces and capture of others, including 12 when storming into Al-Hawatem Camp on the outskirts of Tarhouna, while four others had been captured before; besides seizing five military vehicles and destroying three. “Our forces have advanced as per military tactics and under Air Force cover that targeted positions for Haftar’s forces in Tarhouna. This operation is aimed to respond to Haftar’s attacks on civilian neighborhoods in Tripoli.” Gununu said.
Meanwhile after being ousted from a string of towns west of Tripoli Haftar’s militias turned their rage on civilians in the capital. The rocket attacks on Friday caused at least 23 casualties between those dead and wounded.
According to the Ambulance and Emergency Service, one person was killed and 11 others were injured, as two shells hit a house on Friday morning. The house was located in the Karimiya area, one of the backbones of wholesale trade in Libya. Souq Al-Jumaa area was also hit hard on Friday and explosions could be heard all day. the media advisor to the Ministry of Health, Amin Al Hashemi, confirmed in a press statement that at least one person was killed and 5 others injured, two of them said to be in a critical condition.
In addition, five people were injured when a shell fired by Haftar’s militias hit homes in the Al-Hadaba Badri area. Sources quoted by Libya Observer said that the ambulance crews evacuated the “Royal Clinic” in the Al-Furak neighborhood, as rockets fell in the area, killing 16-year-old Abdul Ghaffar Ayyad and wounding his brother Adam 12 years old and his sister Ghanna 8 years, in addition to another woman in her forties.
The university campus in the Al-Farnaj area was also a target. Rockets fell near the premises which currently houses displaced families, resulting in the injury of one person, according to the Ambulance and Emergency Service.
Meanwhile, no new Coronavirus cases were reported for the second consecutive day in Libya, according to data released by the National Center for Disease Control.
The center said in a statement that its laboratory received, on Saturday, 18 samples and that all results came out negative.
Among the confirmed Covid-19 cases only one fatality was recorded of an 85-year-old woman, while 11 patients have made full recovery, according to the National Center for Disease Control.
Via Libya Observer
