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Lebanon’s Mikati Denies Discussing Issue of Hannibal Gaddafi with Dbeibeh

Dbeibeh meeting with the wounded Libyans in Italy (The Government of National Unity)
Dbeibeh meeting with the wounded Libyans in Italy (The Government of National Unity)
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Lebanon’s Mikati Denies Discussing Issue of Hannibal Gaddafi with Dbeibeh

Dbeibeh meeting with the wounded Libyans in Italy (The Government of National Unity)
Dbeibeh meeting with the wounded Libyans in Italy (The Government of National Unity)

The Libyan interim Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh, ignored an official denial issued by Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati regarding a recent contact between them to follow up on the developments of the Hannibal case.

Hannibal, the son of the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, has been detained for years in Lebanon.

In a statement issued by his media office, Mikati said he received no contact from any Libyan side pertaining to the case.

"The file of Gaddafi's son is in the hands of a competent judiciary, and any follow-up to this file takes place through competent judicial methods," said Mikati.

However, the Lebanese PM expressed Lebanon's keenness on what he described as "the best relations with the Libyan people."

Dbeibeh had earlier said that telephone contacts were held with Mikati to discuss Hannibal Gaddafi’s case and that an “official Libyan committee is set to travel to Lebanon to follow up on the matter.”

Separately, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed in a statement Libya's agreement on the laws for presidential and legislative elections.

The members of the Libyan 6 + 6 Joint Committee for the Preparation of Electoral Laws, which is mandated by the Libyan House of Representatives and the High Council of State, have agreed on laws regulating presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of this year.

The Saudi ministry expressed hopes that the Libyan parties would formally sign the electoral laws, being an “important step towards ending the crisis.”

 

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UN: Most of Lebanon's Displacement Shelters are Full

Internally displaced people are pictured in downtown Beirut on October 2, 2024. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
Internally displaced people are pictured in downtown Beirut on October 2, 2024. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
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UN: Most of Lebanon's Displacement Shelters are Full

Internally displaced people are pictured in downtown Beirut on October 2, 2024. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)
Internally displaced people are pictured in downtown Beirut on October 2, 2024. (Photo by IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

UN officials said on Friday most of Lebanon's nearly 900 shelters were full and that people fleeing Israeli military strikes were increasingly sleeping out in the open in streets or in public parks.
"Most of the nearly 900 government established collective shelters in Lebanon have no more capacity," the UN refugee agency's Rula Amin told a Geneva press briefing. She said that they were working with local authorities to find more sites and that some hotels were opening their doors.
"People are sleeping in public parks, on the street, the beach," said Mathieu Luciano, the International Organization For Migration's office head in Lebanon. He confirmed that most shelters were full, including those in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, but said some others had space.
He voiced concern about the fate of tens of thousands of mostly female live-in domestic workers in Lebanon whom he said were being "abandoned" by their employers. "They face very limited shelter options," he said, adding that many of them came from Egypt, Sudan and Sri Lanka.
Lebanese authorities say more than 1.2 million Lebanese have been displaced and nearly 2,000 people killed since the start of Israeli conflict with Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group over the last year, most of them over the past two weeks.
On Friday, Israeli strikes sealed off Lebanon's main border crossing with Syria, blocking the way for vehicles, although the UNHCR's Amin said that some were crossing on foot.
"We could see that some people were walking, desperate to flee Lebanon, and so they walked actually through that destroyed road," she said.