General Khalifa Haftar's self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) military operation south of Sebha in southern Libya "is intended to protect the country and the people" and is not intended to target any specific tribe or social component in the region . This is what we read in a statement released yesterday by the LNA and relaunched this morning by Ahmed al Mismari, spokesman for Haftar's forces. This was reported by the Italian news agency Nova.
"The Libyan National Army is a national body that aims to protect the country and the people. We will not side with any social component against another. We are all Libyan citizens. Our goal is a united Libya”Wrote Al Mismari on Twitter. The clashes between the LNA and some unspecified Chadian armed groups are concentrated in particular in the area between Ghadwa and Mazraq. According to the Sebha Medical Center, last February 28st the toll of the fighting was at least five dead and XNUMX wounded. The LNA spokesman previously reported that "Chadian mercenaries" are "supported by Jadhran (Ibrahim, former head of the oil facility guards) and terrorists who fled Benghazi".
The MiG-35 fighter jets of the Libyan aviation loyal to General Khalifa Haftar had conducted a series of air raids in an area south of Sebha, in Fezzan, following the firefights that had caused the death of four soldiers of the self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA). The raids had affected the area of Ghadwa where the Haftar forces had rejected an offensive by the Chadian rebels.
The scene of the clashes was the area between Ghadwa and Mazraq. The head of Haftar's forces in Sebha, Abdel Salam al Hasi, spoke of the start of an operation by his soldiers who are heading to Mazraq to fight against the Chadian rebels in the area. According to the spokesman of the LNA, Ahmed al Mismari, "the mercenaries of Chad" are "supported by Jadhran (Ibrahim, former head of the Guards of the oil structures) and the terrorists who fled from Benghazi".