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Libya Eases Coronavirus Restrictions, Reopens Border with Tunisia

Libyans wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Tripoli last Wednesday. (AFP)
Libyans wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Tripoli last Wednesday. (AFP)
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Libya Eases Coronavirus Restrictions, Reopens Border with Tunisia

Libyans wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Tripoli last Wednesday. (AFP)
Libyans wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Tripoli last Wednesday. (AFP)

Libya has started relaxing the coronavirus-related restrictions. The Government of National Unity announced that land crossings will reopen and air travel with Tunisia will resume as of Thursday.

However, it urged the people to continue to comply with preventative precautions to fight the pandemic.

Authorities stated that the epidemic situation in the country is reassuring following a decline in infections.

Official figures, however, showed that more than 2,000 cases were being recorded daily.

Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Adel Gomaa directed Minister of Transportation Muhammad Salem Al-Shahoubi and Minister of Interior Khaled Mazen to reopen the border crossings with Tunisia.

Libya closed land and air borders with its neighbor in July in an effort to limit the spread of the virus.

Libya registered 2,325 coronavirus new cases and 12 deaths, said the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday.

This brings the total number of COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic to 289,000 and 209,000 recoveries.

Malta and Greece have respectively sent 40,000 and 200,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Libya. A total of 890,000 people have so far been inoculated.

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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
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Hamas Claims Attack on Israeli Bus in West Bank That Wounded 8 People, Including 4 Soldiers

Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP
Four people suffered bullet wounds, three of them serious, and four others were lightly injured by shards of glass, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service - AFP

Hamas claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank on Friday that wounded eight people, including four soldiers.

It was the latest violence to scar the territory as tensions run high 14 months into the Israel-Hamas war.

The attacker, who Hamas identified in a statement as Samer Hussein, 46, was killed by Israeli troops shortly after opening fire toward the bus at a junction near the Israeli settlement of Ariel.

The military said four soldiers were lightly wounded. Paramedics said three people were critically wounded.

Attacks by Palestinian fighters on Israelis in the volatile territory have grown more common since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, as Palestinian deaths have also spiked.  

Israeli fire has killed 796 Palestinians since Oct. 7, 2023, mostly in military raids on Palestinian cities and towns. Attacks by settlers on Palestinians and their property have also increased.