{"id":65970,"date":"2020-06-01T08:39:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=65970"},"modified":"2020-06-01T08:39:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:39:56","slug":"5-civilians-killed-in-haftar-militias-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/5-civilians-killed-in-haftar-militias-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"5 civilians killed in Haftar militia&#8217;s attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>At least five civilians were killed in Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli in rocket attacks by renegade general Khalifa Haftar&#8217;s militias, health authorities said Sunday.<\/h2>\n<p>Amin al-Hashemi, a spokesman for the Libyan Health Ministry, said in a written statement that the rockets hit a residential area, without any information on injured.<\/p>\n<p>Haftar intensified attacks on civilians at the beginning of May as the Libyan army recently gained the advantage and inflicted severe losses on his militants.<\/p>\n<p>In the first week of May, forces linked to Haftar struck civilian settlements, killing 15 and wounding 30. Fourteen civilians were killed in attacks targeting Tripoli on May 5-7.<\/p>\n<p>The Libyan government has been under attack by Haftar&#8217;s forces since April 2019, with more than 1,000 killed in the violence. It launched Operation Peace Storm on March 26 to counter attacks on the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya&#8217;s government was founded in 2015 under a UN-led political deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five civilians were killed in Libya&#8217;s capital Tripoli in rocket attacks by renegade general Khalifa Haftar&#8217;s militias, health authorities said Sunday. Amin al-Hashemi, a spokesman for the Libyan Health Ministry, said in a written statement that the rockets hit a residential area, without any information on injured. Haftar intensified attacks on civilians at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[14743,1131],"class_list":["post-65970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-gaddafi","tag-libya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}