Tripoli’s Mitiga airport was attacked this morning, again by a fighter plane believed to belong to the Libyan National Army (LNA). No one was hurt and there was no damage. Flights were cancelled for an hour but then resumed.
There have been a number of ineffective air strikes on the base in recent weeks, although last Thursday a three-day moratorium on air attacks against Libya Dawn forces was announced by the head of the official air force, Saqr Adam Geroushi. It had been ordered by General Khalifa Hafter, he said, with the aim of giving the dialogue talks in Morocco “a chance” to succeed.
In the event, the moratorium lasted four days.
In line with recent attacks on Mitiga, a revenge attack on Zintan by Libya dawn aircraft appears likely. Tit-for-tat strikes on the two places have become the norm in recent days. Zintan controls Wattiya airbase from which today’s jet fighter is thought to have taken off. Zintan also has its own airport.
Meanwhile, it reported that that employees of Libya Ground Services, the state-owned aviation ground handling company, plan to go on strike tomorrow, Tuesday. Claiming not to have been paid for three months, the staff threaten to disrupt flights at all functioning airports.
