Violent confrontations broke out in the center of Zawiya, western Libya, in which heavy and medium weapons were used, resulting in deaths and families stuck in the midst of the confrontations.
Amidst the recurrence of these incidents between the militias, two Libyan writers, commenting on Sky News Arabia, rule out an imminent cessation of the armed conflict, as long as the state of national institutions is absent.
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At least two people were killed during the clashes that have been taking place since late Thursday night, according to the Ambulance and Emergency Service, which declared a “state of alert” in all its branches extending from Zawiya to Al-Ajailat, about 40 kilometers away.
Civil sources raised the death toll to 3 people, in addition to 8 injured, including a woman and a child, while the fire broke out as a result of the clashes within the walls of Day Al-Hilal clinic in the area of the same name, which is witnessing the clashes.
The ambulance service appealed to all parties in the city to cease fire; In order to be able to remove the families trapped in the areas of clashes, he also allocated contact numbers in order to receive their distress.
-While the Libyan Red Crescent managed to get some of these families out, the failure to reach a ceasefire hinders these efforts, and the Red Crescent urged the conflicting parties to reach a truce so that it can get the besieged families out of the conflict areas.
-The Red Crescent also warned that volunteers, medical and paramedical agencies, and ambulances are not targeted, calling on the conflicting parties to facilitate the task for the emergency team to remove the stranded families.
Libya crises
There were conflicting reports about the parties involved in the clashes, although they all agreed that one of its parties was a force affiliated with the militia Mukhtar al-Jahawi, as eyewitnesses spoke of the killing of a member of the force, while the other parties involved in the confrontation have not yet been determined.
The city of Al-Zawiya is witnessing frequent unrest and fighting, amid a state of total security chaos, where confrontations took place between armed groups in more than 3 incidents during the last 6 months.
The difference in the events during the recent period was the circulation of videos of torture of young men by mercenaries affiliated with armed militias in the city, which led to the outbreak of widespread protests since the end of April, calling for the expulsion of the headquarters of the armed groups, the cleansing of the city from drug-selling dens, and the raiding of fuel and human smuggling sites. .
