As clashes rage in southern Tripoli between eastern military commander Khalifa Hifter’s forces and the internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) made up of various militias, the Amazigh in Zuwara fear their border area and city could be attacked at any moment.
“We just tried to escape. I thought it was the last day of my life,” civil society activist Fadi Dhan from Zuwara told Al-Monitor by phone, describing Hifter’s forces attacking the inactive military base of Abd Al-Samad on April 13, when eight rockets launched by a war plane at 6:45 a.m. injured two people. It was the first attack in the western border area of Zuwara since Hifter's Libyan National Army (LNA) began an offensive on the Libyan capital Tripoli on April 4, causing at least 254 deaths, over 1,228 injuries and displacing nearly 32,000 people.
