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Gharian wants ceasefire: report |
| 2014-10-19 |
| [Libya Herald] Gharian Municipal Council is reported to have agreed the UN's demand for a ceasefire in the nearby fighting between Libya Dawn ...aka Fajr Libya, the Islamist operation launched to counter that of General Khalifa Haftar (Operation Dignity). It is made up of the Libya Shield militia (Misrata and Moslem Brotherhood), Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room (Moslem Brotherhood), and Tripoli Brigade (close to Abdul Hakim Belhaj, head of Al-Watan party). Financing and moral support come from Turkey and Qatar... forces and the Libyan National Army (NLA). The head of the municipal council's information committee, Shukri Bilah, said today that the council had accepted UNSMIL's demand for an immediate end to all military operations in the Jebel Nafusa starting mid-night 18 Oct for minimum of four days in order to facilitate the provision of humanitarian aid. UNSMIL had sent letters to that effect to Zintan, Gharian and Kikla Municipal councils. Blah said that the local Saraya Gharian brigade, together with other Libya Dawn forces stationed in the town, had not attacked anyone and were there purely to defend it. Claims that Gharian Municipal Council has meanwhile told the Saraya Gharian leader Adel Daab to remove his forces from the town and fight his battles elsewhere have not been verified. |
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