Iran Press/ Africa: Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the head of the Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU), sacked Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush after her meeting with her counterpart in the Israeli regime Eli Cohen in Rome last week was leaked to the media. She has since fled the country.
On Sunday evening, a statement from the Israeli regim's foreign ministry said al-Mangoush and Cohen had discussed ways to have “great relations” between Lybia and the regime in Tel Aviv.
The meeting sparked protests Sunday night in Tripoli and other cities, with demonstrators blocking roads with burning tires and waving Palestinian flags.
Libya’s rival parliament in the east, which rejects the GNU, said on Sunday it would hold hearings into the meeting while the Tripoli-based Presidency Council asked Dbeibah for clarification and the High State Council, another important body, condemned it.
Under a 1957 law in Libya, it is illegal to have formal relations with the Israeli regime. Analysts say al-Mangoush has taken the fall for decisions made by Libya’s rival leaders, linking the meeting with the United States’s efforts to pressure more Arab countries to normalize ties with the Israeli regime.
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