Over 120,000 Libyans now internally displaced: UNHCR
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The continued armed conflict in Libya has now seen internally displaced people hitting at almost  120,000 in number. The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) has revealed.

“Numbers of forced displacement in Libya haven’t stopped swelling since the raging conflict over Libyan capital Tripoli sparked early April 2019, pushing over 120,000 Libyans to leave their houses and seek refuge in and around the capital,” the commission said in a statement.

An army based in eastern Libya has been leading a campaign since early April to take over Tripoli from the government.

The World Health Organization also said, as at now the fighting has killed more than 1,000 people and injured more than 5,700 others.

In eastern Libya, hundreds of thousands of people also fled their homes due to years of fighting between the eastern-based army and extremist groups, UNHCR said.

In Al-Sabri Al-Sharqi district in Benghazi’s old town, the war has left a trail of destruction with entire neighborhoods brought to the ground, buildings collapsed, and mountains of rubble stand.

Benghazi, the second-largest city of Libya and the genesis and revelation of the 2011 uprising that dethroned former leader Muammar Gaddafi, witnessed a fierce battle pitting the east-based Libya National Army, led by Khalifa Haftar, against extremist groups.