Thread by @ThomasVLinge

#Libya 🇱🇾: despite the global pandemic the battle for #Tripoli continues and even intensifies.

Today #GNA forces dealt another blow to #Haftar's #LNA, taking the coastal city of #Sabratha and several surrounding towns

#Libya 🇱🇾: with the securing of the entire coast west of #Tripoli the #GNA is now in a position to attack Watiyah Airbase, which could mean the end #Haftar's conquest on the capital

#Libya 🇱🇾: video os some of the heavy fighting around #Sabratha earlier today.

Both sides are completely disregarding the #coronavirus pandemic to continue the war

#Libya: besides #Sabratha the #GNA also took control of Sorman, al-Ajaylat, Aljmail, Riqdalin and Zelten. All located between #Tripoli and the Tunisian border

#Libya 🇱🇾: moment #GNA fighters took over the central square in #Sabratha today, pushing the #LNA out of the city

#Libya 🇱🇾: the #LNA responds to its losses in #Sabratha by firing Grad rockets on residential neighborhoods in #Tripoli

#Libya 🇱🇾: #LNA forces have been exploiting the #coronavirus pandemic by shelling neighborhoods as people in #Tripoli were in lockdown and targeting hospitals, forcing civilians to flee which has made social distancing impossible nytimes.com/video/world/af…

#Libya 🇱🇾: After just one military victory #Sarraj already states he will not sit down with #Haftar, ever.

#LNA forces are still on the outskirts of #Tripoli aje.io/4tuyw

#Libya 🇱🇾: clashes have erupted between #LNA forces and local gunmen in the eastern city of #Tobruk, which serves as the location of the House of Representatives.

The affiliation of the gunmen is unknown, but rumours range from eastern separatists to local police forces

#Libya 🇱🇾: with #Tripoli going I to full lockdown starting tomorrow 17-04 people are rushing to the vegetable markets in large numbers, crowding together to buy their last groceries

#Libya 🇱🇾: hoping the break the back of the #LNA offensive on #Tripoli, #GNA forces have launched an offensive on #Tarhuna.

Video shows captured LNA soldiers in GNA hands

#Libya 🇱🇾: as the #LNA is rapidly losing ground shelling on #Tripoli has been some of the worst since the battle started a year ago

#Libya 🇱🇾: rhe current offensive on #Tarhuna is joined by #GNA forces from the #Amazigh city #Zuwara who for the first time since a year have been able to join the frontlines around #Tripoli

#Libya 🇱🇾: the Madkhalis are a group of pro-#Haftar salafists who are a strange addition to Haftar's so-called "secular anti-islamist" Operation Dignity

#Libya 🇱🇾: footage of some of the fighting on the Tuwayshah front south of #Tripoli as #GNA forces launched their attacks.

The #LNA later retreated from the village