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Africa North
Government forces bomb convoy heading to Benghazi as violence continues
2014-11-04
[Libya Herald] The Libyan National Army (LNA) has claimed to have carried out Arclight airstrikes on a convoy of 30 vehicles attempting to reach Benghazi as festivities continued across the city.

Mohammed Al-Hajezi, a front man for Operation Dignity and pro-government forces, told the Libya Herald that the air force had bombed weapons, vehicles and personnel from 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 as they travelled from Sirte to Benghazi yesterday.

explained that the Arclight airstrikes took place east of Sirte on the road between Wadi Harawa and Nawfaliya. Hejazi claimed the entire convoy had been destroy and added that any forces opposed to the the army trying to enter the eastern city could expect to suffer the same fate.

In Benghazi itself, fierce festivities have continued following relative quiet across the city both this morning and yesterday morning. Thirty-six people were reported killed in fighting in Benghazi over a period of 24 hours. The online publication Bowabat Al-Wassat has said that a total of 254 individuals have now been killed in the city since the beginning of renewed festivities in mid-October, quoting medical sources.

In the Sabri district, the Libyan Red Islamic Thingy worked yesterday to evacuate staff and patients remaining at the Jumhuriya maternity hospital which has become caught-up in fighting there.
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