Libya's National Stability Gov Prepares for Int’l Conference for Derna Reconstruction

Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
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Libya's National Stability Gov Prepares for Int’l Conference for Derna Reconstruction

Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)
Committee of the National Stability during its visit to Derna to prepare for the international conference (National Stability government)

Libya's Government of National Stability, headed by Osama Hammad, announced that it would move forward and unilaterally establish an international conference for the reconstruction of Derna after the devastating Hurricane Daniel.

The Hammad government, which does not enjoy international recognition, said that the preparatory committee visited Derna on Friday.

The committee toured the venue for the conference and saw the preparations and progress made.

It thanked the Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, and the head and members of the Military Security Chamber for providing all the facilities that would ensure the conference's success.

The conference is scheduled for Nov 1 and 2 in Derna and Benghazi, east of the country.

Meanwhile, local media reported the arrival of Turkish aid to Tobruk port, carrying humanitarian relief after the hurricane affected several areas.

Director of the Emergency Medicine and Support Center Mohammad Kaplan announced in a brief statement the recovery of 38 bodies of victims who were missing after the storm.

Furthermore, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed the head of the interim unity government, Abdulhamid Dbeibeh, of his country's readiness to contribute to the reconstruction of Derna and neighboring towns.

Also, Salah Badi, one of the most prominent leaders of the armed militias in Misrata, said foreign forces have 48 hours to leave the Air College in Misrata.

However, local media quoted sources as saying that foreign military officials at the Misrata military air base refused to meet Badi. They informed Dbeibeh that whoever "crosses the red line" towards the base would be a legitimate target.

In 2018, the US, UK, and France imposed sanctions on Badi, accusing him of working to undermine the political solution in Libya and being involved in the clashes that took place in Tripoli that year, killing at least 120, mostly civilians.



24 Killed as Israeli Airstrikes Hit Northeastern Lebanon

People check the destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern village of Bazzaliyeh in the Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, near the border with Syria, on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
People check the destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern village of Bazzaliyeh in the Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, near the border with Syria, on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
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24 Killed as Israeli Airstrikes Hit Northeastern Lebanon

People check the destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern village of Bazzaliyeh in the Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, near the border with Syria, on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)
People check the destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern village of Bazzaliyeh in the Hermel district of Lebanon's Bekaa valley, near the border with Syria, on November 1, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. (AFP)

Israeli airstrikes on Friday killed at least 24 people in northeastern Lebanon, the country’s news agency said, raising the death toll from eight there.

It was the latest deadly toll in the area since the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah escalated last month.

Israel’s military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah’s military infrastructure.

Lebanon’s state National news Agency reported four airstrikes in different villages across country’s northeast, saying rescuers were still searching for survivors in Younine, a town in the Bekaa Valley, from the rubble of a targeted house.

Hussein Haj Hassan, a Lebanese lawmaker representing the region in Baalbek-Hermel region, said that 60,000 people have already fled their homes in the area due to Israeli bombardment.

The death toll from Friday's strikes in the northeast was expected to increase further, reports said.

Earlier, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on a mountain town overlooking Beirut has killed three people and wounded five.

The ministry gave no further details about the early Friday airstrike on the edge of Qamatiyeh, southeast of Beirut.

An Associated Press journalist who visited the scene said the strike was closer to the nearby village of Ein al-Rummaneh, adding that it caused minor damage to an apartment on the first floor of a building.

On Oct. 6, an Israeli strike in Qamatiyeh killed six people, including three children, the Health Ministry said.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 2,897 people and injured 13,150 in Lebanon, with 30 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours, the ministry said on Friday.

‘New wave of displacement’

Meanwhile, the UN humanitarian aid coordination agency warned of a new “wave of displacement” in Beirut after the Israeli army issued new orders for people to leave.

Spokesman Jens Laerke of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, citing local officials, said the new displacement orders for the capital’s southern suburbs were followed shortly afterward by heavy airstrikes.

He told reporters in Geneva that other recent displacement orders from the Israeli military spurred an estimated 50,000 people to leave the eastern city of Baalbek and head mostly toward the northern Bekaa Valley.

“We are working to access civilians who remain in hard to reach areas. To date, 15 convoys have successfully been organized to reach areas” in four Lebanese cities, including Baalbek, Laerke said. “But the insecurity has an impact on what we can do.”