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Libya in the Last 24 Hours: The Army Advances in Salah al-Din Area in Southern Tripoli

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TRIPOLI – Major General Fawzi al-Mansouri, commander of the Ain Zara axis, confirmed that military units of the Libyan National Army (LNA) made progress towards Salah al-Din, south of Tripoli late Wednesday.

Mansouri said on Thursday that army forces clashed with militias near the Yarmouk camp south of Tripoli. He pointed out that the army’s progress was in the form of tactical leaps to control new monitoring positions belonging to the militias.

He said that the militias fled as the army advanced so that the clashes were no more than skirmishes followed by the advance of the armed forces and their control over the monitoring areas.

GNA Militias Plot New Attack on Civilian Plane

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BENGHAZI – Spokesman of the General Command of the Libyan National Army (LNA), General Brigadier Ahmed al-Mesmari has revealed a plot by militias allied with the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) to attack a civilian plane and pin it on LNA.

“All fears exist, these are criminals that do not respect international law, customs and traditions and have forgotten that Tripoli airport is the only one that serves the people of the capital,” Al-Mesmari told Libya Al-Hadath TV channel last night.

Al-Mesmari that GNA’s militias are the one behind the repeated attacks on Mitiga airport, adding that Libya is surveilled by satellite so no one can hide the truth.

Al-Mesmari’s remarks came following two separate incidents in which Mitiga airport was bombed just as two Libyan civilian planes were about to land. Management of Mitiga airport reported last week that Buraq Airlines and Libyan Airlines narrowly avoided shelling at the airport.

The LNA spokesman revealed another possible motif behind bombing Mitiga airport. He said that some militias are aiming to use these strikes to bring out the estimated 2,800 prisoners in the Mitiga prison.

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Italy’s Defense Minist Misurata are not being targeted

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ROME – Italy’s Defense Minister, Elisabetta Trenta, said on Thursday that Italian soldiers in Misurata “are not a target for any of the two factions” in Libya, in a reference to airstrikes conducted by Air Force of the Libyan National Army (LNA) which targeted Misurata Air Academy as well as the city’s military airport.

“I would like to underline that in the last two days the aircraft of General [Khalifa] Haftar also hit the Misurata airport, where the Italian base is located,” she posted on Facebook. “These are very precise attacks, which have not involved in any way Italians and our hospital and, this precision indicates that we are certainly not the goal of the attacks.”

Trenta had previously disclosed the presence of an Italian military unit in Misurata which include 400 soldiers.

“The presence of the Italian hospital continues to be important for the activity that is carried out in favor of the Libyan people,” she said.

“In a situation where there is no chance to solve the military conflict and presents a strong risk of radicalization, only a political solution can bring lasting peace and stability and stem the humanitarian crisis.”

“We continue to express proximity to the Libyans and to perform an activity of diplomacy, which also uses the health tool, whose purpose is to stop the use of weapons and to sit the different actors around a table.”

The Italian minister stressed that the presence of Italian soldiers in Misurata “is very important and lies directly on the safety of our country”.

She concluded by thanking the new commander of the Italian Mission in Libya General Alessio Cavicchioli, whom she said arrived in Libya a few days ago.

Mitiga Airport announces opening of airspace and resumption of flights

The management of Mitiga International Airport, announced on Wednesday the “re-opening of airspace at the airport and the resumption of remaining flights by carriers,” according to a statement published by the airport on its Facebook page.