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GNA-Affiliated Militia Kidnaps Head of Libyan Media Foundation

Head of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj attends a meeting in Rome on March 20, 2017. Remo Casilli / Reuters
Head of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj attends a meeting in Rome on March 20, 2017. Remo Casilli / Reuters
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GNA-Affiliated Militia Kidnaps Head of Libyan Media Foundation

Head of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj attends a meeting in Rome on March 20, 2017. Remo Casilli / Reuters
Head of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) Fayez al-Sarraj attends a meeting in Rome on March 20, 2017. Remo Casilli / Reuters

Militias affiliated with the Government of National Accord (GNA) stormed the Libyan Media Foundation and kidnapped its head Mohamed Baiyou and two of his sons.

Baiyou revealed on Wednesday that he had been kidnapped, saying that “terrorist criminals attacked his home in Tripoli.”

The militias also kidnapped and arrested Hind Ammar who was appointed two days ago as program director at al-Wataniya TV channel.

The group behind the kidnapping, the so-called Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade, released a photo of Baiyou facing a poster of the militia’s logo and said in a statement that it rejected "a person without principle to run the media." It added that "the martyrs’ blood will not be wasted.”

The group's leader Ayoub Aburas had openly threatened Baiyou shortly before the kidnapping.

Meanwhile, GNA did not issue any official statement over the issue.

This came before GNA head Fayez al-Sarraj and his Foreign Minister Mohmmad Siala arrived in Rome to meet with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.

Also earlier, Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha arrived on an official visit to Italy to discuss illegal migration with Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese.

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Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
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Israeli Airstrike kills 3, Including Child, in Southern Lebanon

Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI
Israeli artillery shells an area of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon, as seen from the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 11 September 2024. EPA/ATEF SAFADI

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed three people, including a child.
The ministry said the Thursday night airstrike on the southern village of Kfarjoz also wounded three people.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that one of the dead was “a fighter in Hezbollah” and the two others were “civilians."

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the strike “targeted two motorcycles on the Nabatieh-Kfarjoz road," and that a passing car was also hit.

The Lebanon-Israel border has been witnessing daily exchanges for nearly a year as Hezbollah says it’s backing up its ally Hamas in Gaza.
More than 500 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon since Oct. 8, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians.

In northern Israel, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon.

On Friday, the Israeli military said “approximately 20 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory” around Safed, where the Israeli army Northern Command is based.

“Most were successfully intercepted, the rest fell in open areas,” the army said, adding that no injuries were reported but teams were working to “extinguish the fire that erupted due to a fall in the area."