Around 222 families have been displaced from Al-Fuqaha town in central Libya to the southern city of Al-Jafra due to recent violent acts in the town.
To support these families, the International Organization for Immigration (IOM) teamed up with the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to provide supplies, including blankets.
On Oct. 28, suspected Islamic State (IS) militants attacked al-Fuqaha town in central Libya, killing four people, kidnapping others and torching a police station.
Local sources said the area in Jufra District has been controlled by the militants in the aftermath, adding that around 20 young men, including policemen, were kidnapped.
The attack on al-Fuqaha, south of the former IS bastion of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast, began at 1 a.m.
They added that the militants led the young men to a rural road, and some heard sounds of gunfire at nearby farms. It has not been made clear whether these men were killed or the militants were celebrating their control over the area.
The attack comes after a statement issued by the Presidency Council called for an end to the insecurity at the area and to take some measures to improve the situation.
Two weeks after the Islamic State group (IS) attacked Al-Fuqaha town in central Libya and abducted several young men, IS offered to free the hostages in exchange for freeing some of its own men jailed by the Libyan National Army (LNA).
The sources added that al-Fuqaha leaders headed to Benghazi to meet General Commander of Libyan National Army (LNA) Khalifa Haftar to discuss the possibility to exchange IS prisoners at the army with the town’s abducted men.
An IS member called Head of al-Fuqaha’s municipal branch Hamad al-Hassi to propose the exchange. However, no further details have been provided about the actions taken to free these hostages.
