{"id":1792,"date":"2017-07-05T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T18:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2018-01-23T11:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:42:24","slug":"fighting-at-tripoli-airport-5-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/fighting-at-tripoli-airport-5-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting at Tripoli Airport, 5 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>Update Jan 21: Heavy clashes broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Jan 15, leaving at least twenty people dead and forcing the airport to close for five days, re-opening again on Jan 20. Gunfire at Mitiga Airport damaged multiple aircraft, including a few A319s and at least one A330.<\/pre>\n<p>July 5, 2017 &#8211; <strong>HLLM\/Tripoli Mitiga<\/strong>\u00a0: Intense fighting at the Airport yesterday, with 5 people killed and 32 injured.\u00a0The fighting is ongoing between rival members of the Buni Brigade militia, which controls the airport terminal building. It is understood that there had been a falling out over the distribution of the income the militia earns from goods and passengers passing through the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Operations were switched to Mitiga from HLLT\/Tripoli International in 2014, after that airport was severely damaged in the heavy clashes that broke out across the capital in mid-2014 and closed to all operations.<\/p>\n<p>Also yesterday, July 4th, <strong>the first flight in three years to land at HLLT\/Tripoli International<\/strong> arrived from Addis Ababa, which was a non-scheduled flight operated by Libyan Arab Airlines. There is no indication yet that HLLT is open again for regular traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Libya remains categorised as a Level One country (Do Not Fly) at <a href=\"http:\/\/safeairspace.net\/\"><strong>safeairspace.net<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/safeairspace.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1795\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2418\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya.png 2418w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya-300x101.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya-768x259.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya-1024x346.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Libya-676x228.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2418px) 100vw, 2418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update Jan 21: Heavy clashes broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Jan 15,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[863,864,80,865,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-1792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-special-report","8":"tag-hllm","9":"tag-hllt","10":"tag-libya","11":"tag-mitiga","12":"tag-tripoli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}