Shaaban Hadia Al-Zawi a.k.a. Abu Obeida, head of the Islamist militia Libyan Revolutionaries Operation Room, was captured by Warshefana forces near Tripoli during clashes that injured him and killed two of his commanders. Two young relatives of Libya’s ambassador to the UK were kidnapped from their Tripoli home. Operation Dignity threatened to bomb any ship approaching the port of Benghazi as it is being used for shipments of arms to Islamist militias. At least six Operation Dignity soldiers and 13 Ansar al Sharia fighters were killed in clashes in Benghazi near the Benina Airport. A member of the Libyan Army was murdered in Benghazi. An airstrike destroyed an Islamist munitions depot in Ghariyan. While Libya’s UN ambassador repeated accusations that Qatar and Sudan have been sending arms to the Islamist Libya Dawn forces, Qatar and Sudan denied the accusations.
