Rockets targeted areas of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday, including its only working airport, wounding at least one person and causing material damage, several sources said. Forces backing the UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli, blamed the attacks on rival forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, an eastern strongman who launched an offensive to take the capital last April.
Rockets targeted the Al-Hadaba al-Khadra, Souk al-Joumaa and Abu Slim neighbourhoods in the city's southeastern suburbs, eyewitnesses and an AFP photographer said.
"The militias of war criminal Haftar targeted Mitiga airport, its perimeter and several residential areas of Tripoli with more than 60 Grad-type rockets," according to a pro-GNA forces statement published on Facebook.
"A woman was wounded when her home was hit by a rocket," it added.
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