The Benghazi parliament demands a stop to oil exports to countries that support Israel, including Italy
Eastern Libya's parliament has called for the immediate exit of ambassadors supporting Israel during airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and called for Libyan oil exports to those same countries to be stopped, Turkish and Libyan media reported.
“We call on the government to stop oil and gas exports to countries that support Israel in case Israeli massacres are not stopped,” parliamentary speaker Abdullah Belihaq said in a statement Wednesday.
Specifically, eastern Libya's parliament condemned support for Israel from the United States, United Kingdom, France and Italy, calling the conflict a "US- and Western-led genocide against unarmed people under blockade."
The statement from eastern Benghazi, home to Libya's rival government, came on the same day that US officials are visiting Tripoli, the western seat of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) to discuss security.
There is no indication that the Tripoli GNA government supported the eastern parliament's statements on Gaza. It is not possible for the eastern government to unilaterally stop oil exports without plunging Libya into another civil war. While the East has the ability to physically intervene in oil production and export terminals, Libya's oil revenues are nominally controlled by the Western government. So for now the parliament's pronouncement remains at a theoretical level. At the moment.
The UN calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemning the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel but also stressing: “Those appalling attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.” Gaza's Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said Tuesday that more than 700 people had been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in just 24 hours. According to Libyan and Turkish estimates, around 8,000 people have been killed so far in the conflict, including more than 6,500 Palestinians.
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