In Benghazi, Six people were killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb explosion during a military funeral at Hawari district’s cemetery in Benghazi on July 11.
In Murzuk, social components agreed to stop the fighting and to lay the foundations for peaceful and secure coexistence, after the recent clashes in the town.
In Tajoura, the Anti-illegal Immigration Agency said on 10 July that more than 300 migrants held at the Tajoura shelter went out into the streets without being intercepted.
On the international level, France is not a “military stakeholder” in Libya, the country’s Army Minister said on Sunday. Parly’s remarks came after several Javelin missiles found in a military base in Gharyan south of Tripoli.
BENGHAZI
- Six people were killed and 25 others wounded in a car bomb explosion during a military funeral at Hawari district’s cemetery in Benghazi on July 11. Militants and leaders of Saiqa forces including chief commander Wanis Bu Khamada were attending the funeral of former commander Khalifa al-Mismari when the bomb-laden car parked inside the cemetery went off. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack [Libya Observer, 11.07.2019].
GHARYAN
- director of Gharyan Teaching Hospital, Abdul Salam al-Shabaani, confirmed that at least five citizens had arrived at the hospital with injuries as a result of the bombing of a police training institute in Tgessat area downtown the city late 9 July. The airstrike conducted by Haftar’s forces caused damage to parts of the Institute as well as private property and cars, according to a military source of Gharyan Protection Force of the Libyan Army. Gharyan has been shelled continuously by Haftar’s forces since the liberation of the city last June [Libya Observer, 10.07.2019].
MURZUK
- social components of Murzuk town southwest of Libya agreed to stop the fighting and to lay the foundations for peaceful and secure coexistence, after the recent clashes in the town. The ceasefire agreement provides for an immediate cease-fire, the removal of all armed presence in the town, and the formation of a joint committee to monitor the implementation of the agreement. This is the second agreement of this kind, following the clashes that broke out after Haftar’s forces invasion of the town last February, before retreating from the area. Haftar’s attack of the town resulted in reprisal acts among its people [Libya Observer, 14.07.2019].
- a source from the Security Directorate of Murzuk denied the presence of any Chadian opposition forces or ISIS militias in the city, explaining that the clashes that took place in the city involved the Tabu and some of the town’s residents, as a response to the offensive actions committed during Haftar’s invasion to the region. The source stressed that such conflicts did not exist before the entry of Haftar’s militias to the city [Libya Observer, 09.07.2019].
TAJOURA
- the Anti-illegal Immigration Agency said on 10 July that more than 300 migrants held at the Tajoura shelter went out into the streets without being intercepted. “A team of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) visited Tajoura shelter on 9 July, to relocate 55 migrants and retain another 310 others at the shelter, however, confusion and disorder erupted among the immigrants, because they said that the mechanism used for selecting the vulnerable was unfair,” the information office of the agency explained [Libya Observer, 10.07.2019].
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- France is not a “military stakeholder” in Libya, the country’s Army Minister said on Sunday. Parly’s remarks came after several Javelin missiles found in a military base in Gharyan south of Tripoli. Florence Parly told French radio network France Info that a French detachment, which owned the missiles, was in Libyan territory for an intelligence mission on combat the terror group ISIS. “Daesh enjoys a chaotic situation in Libya,” said Parly, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS [Address Libya, 14.07.2019];
- the African Union’s High Level Committee on Libya has expressed concern at “outside interference” in the besieged country and proposed the creation of a special joint UN and AU envoy. “The Committee expressed its deep concern over continued external interference in Libya’s internal affairs, motivated by selfish interests, which continues to undermine efforts to establish a permanent and unconditional ceasefire,“the Committee said in a text following a weekend AU summit in Niger [Address Libya, 11.07.2019];
- the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry denied statements attributed to the Prime Minister of Algeria, Noureddine Badawi about Libya and Field Marshal Haftar, which were made by GNA’s Minister of Interior Fathi Bashagha. The claims attributed, by some foreign and national media, to Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi regarding the crisis in Libya are “false and subversive,” according to the state news agency quoting on Tuesday a responsible source at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Algiers [Address Libya, 11.07.2019];
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on 9 July called for an unconditional ceasefire in the Libya conflict. Addressing foreign ambassadors serving in Germany at an annual reception held in the Meseberg castle near Berlin, Merkel expressed grave concern about the continuing escalation in Libya. “Germany supports UN efforts for an unconditional ceasefire,” she stressed, and urged all conflict parties to return to the political process [Address Libya, 10.07.2019];
- the French military said on 10 July several Javelin missiles found in a military base in Gharyan south of Tripoli, Libya, were purchased by the French government from the United States but were never intended for sale or transfer to any party to the Libya conflict. In a statement sent to reporters, the Army Ministry said the missiles were intended for the “self-protection of a French military unit deployed to carry out counter-terrorism operations”. “Damaged and unusable, the armaments were being temporarily stocked at a depot ahead of their destruction,” the ministry said [Address Libya, 10.07.2019];
- Prime Minister of Algeria, Noureddine Badawi, expressed during his meeting with the Libyan Interior Minister, Fathi Bashagha in Algeria his country’s desire to contribute to the success of the Libyan dialogue. Badawi called on the African Union president to literally name the countries destabilizing Libya, stressing that Haftar’s aggression against Tripoli requires a firm international condemnation [Libya Observer, 09.07.2019].
