The enemy, in the eyes of many in Tripoli, is renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar, who seeks to rule the country via his self-declared Libyan National Army. Below, protesters gather for a demonstration against Haftar’s offensive. 📸: nabihbulos
In this video, it's been 49 days since Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled Libyan National Army launched an all-out offensive to retake the Libyan capital Tripoli.
A deal reached in February with the GNA’s head, Prime Minister Fayez Serraj, would have installed Haftar as chief of staff of a reconstituted Libyan army after the selection of a new government later this year. The violence has pushed more than 75,000 Tripoli residents to abandon their homes, the U.N. says, with more than 500 killed and thousands wounded.
“The first days of the clashes the streets were empty. But now? Look around you,” said Abu Bakr Shibani, 38, a furniture maker sitting with his wife and two children in the Kabir garden, as he gestured toward the late-night crowd.“This morning I heard another boom. We don’t know from where, we don’t know who fired it. It’s just something you don’t understand,” Shibani said. “We’re just trying to have a normal outing, and yet we have a war.
“There's no one in the streets when it’s dark, of course,” he said, chuckling. “What am I going to do, sell a cigarette to the roaming street dogs?” He took out his smartphone to show a visiting reporter a picture of Tripoli in the 1960s; it depicted elaborately decorated buildings built during the Italian colonial period standing near an organized seaside road.
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