Pro-Gaddafi Group Uncovered in Libyan Capital

Late Libyan leader Moammar al-Gaddafi. (AFP)
Late Libyan leader Moammar al-Gaddafi. (AFP)
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Pro-Gaddafi Group Uncovered in Libyan Capital

Late Libyan leader Moammar al-Gaddafi. (AFP)
Late Libyan leader Moammar al-Gaddafi. (AFP)

A force loyal to the government of national accord announced that it had thwarted a terrorist plot in the Libyan capital Tripoli plotted by loyalists of the regime of late leader Moammar al-Gaddafi.

A deterrence force in the Interior Ministry of PM Fayez al-Sarraj’s government arrested a cell that was planning military operations with others, which are affiliated with the so-called Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya.

It said that it had received information that an armed group was seeking to create chaos in Tripoli and its suburbs.

The group had set up an operations room south of the capital with the support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya.

Following investigations and surveillance operations, the members of the group were arrested. They included three senior officers from the Libyan army and four civilians.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Libya describes itself as a new political organization that includes supporters of the Gaddafi regime. They believe that the February 2011 uprising was a conspiracy against Libya, reported the German news agency.

The Front was established on December 26, 2016 and its founder revealed that it was led by Gaddafi’s son, Seif al-Isalm.

The group is aimed at liberating Libya from militias, with the support of pro-Gaddafi tribes.

Seif al-Islam has not commented on these claims.



UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
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UN Agency Says Israel Shuts 4 Schools in East Jerusalem

A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)
A boy stands outside the gate of the Kalandia vocational training center (KTC), run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which was raided by Israeli forces earlier at the Qalandiya camp for Palestinian refugees in the occupied West Bank on February 18, 2025. (AFP)

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says Israeli forces raided four of its schools in east Jerusalem, ordering their closure.

Israel has severed all ties with the agency, known as UNRWA, and bars it from operating in its territory. It says the agency allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, allegations denied by UN officials.

UNRWA said police entered a training center by force on Tuesday, firing tear gas and sound grenades and ordering its evacuation. It said 350 students and 30 staff were present during the raid on the Qalandiya Training Center.

It said police and city officials ordered the closure of three other schools in east Jerusalem, two of which proceeded with the school day.

Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne said police did not enter the UN buildings and that Jerusalem municipal authorities carried out the closures. He said police were deployed to protect the city workers, using “riot dispersal” means in one case where a crowd threw stones at them outside a UN facility.

Roland Friedrich, UNRWA director for the occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, said the raids were an “unacceptable violation of United Nations privileges and immunities,” and a “denial of the right to education for children and trainees.”