{"id":40462,"date":"2019-08-12T21:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40462"},"modified":"2019-08-12T21:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:22:59","slug":"israel-delays-removal-of-philippine-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40462","title":{"rendered":"Israel delays removal of Philippine worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"78\">\n<p>\nTRIPOLI:\u00a0Flights have resumed from the Libyan capital\u2019s sole functioning airport as calm returned on Monday to the outskirts of Tripoli after a temporary truce was violated the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cReopening airspace at Mitiga International Airport after maintenance and cleaning &#8230; so that airlines can renew their flights,\u201d the facility\u2019s management said late on Sunday on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Tripoli-based government and forces loyal to eastern commander Khalifa Haftar had agreed to a truce for the three-day holiday of Eid Al-Adha that began on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHaftar launched an offensive to take Libya\u2019s capital in early April, but encountered stiff resistance, resulting in months of stalemate in southern Tripoli\u2019s outskirts.<\/p>\n<p>\nFlights from Mitiga airport were suspended for several hours on Sunday after rocket fire hit the airport, a few meters from the runway where planes were parked.<\/p>\n<p>\nLocated east of Tripoli, Mitiga is a former military air base that has been used by civilian traffic since Tripoli International Airport suffered severe damage during fighting in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\nMitiga is in a zone under the control of forces loyal to the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) and has often been targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\nHaftar\u2019s Libyan National Army and the GNA had on Saturday agreed to a UN-sponsored humanitarian truce for Al-Adha, although the GNA listed conditions, including a cessation of troop movements.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe GNA blamed Haftar\u2019s forces for the attack on the airport, in which no casualties or serious damage were reported, and for a separate alleged attack in the Soug Al-Jomaa district of Tripoli.<\/p>\n<p>\nOver the past four months, 1,093 people have been killed in the fighting and 5,752 wounded, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while more than 120,000 people have been displaced.<\/p>\n<p>\nLibya has been mired in chaos since a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed Muammar Qaddafi in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI:\u00a0Flights have resumed from the Libyan capital\u2019s sole functioning airport as calm returned on Monday to the outskirts of Tripoli after a temporary truce was violated the previous day. \u201cReopening airspace at Mitiga International Airport after maintenance and cleaning &#8230; so that airlines can renew their flights,\u201d the facility\u2019s management said late on Sunday on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}