The Libyan National Army (LNA) will pursue its advance on the capital Tripoli, said parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh.
“We need to get rid of militias and terrorist groups,” he stressed, according to Reuters.
“We assure the residents of Tripoli that the campaign to liberate Tripoli will be limited and not violate any freedoms but restore security and fight terrorism,” Saleh told lawmakers in a session in the main eastern city of Benghazi.
The LNA, commanded by Khalifa Haftar, launched its operation against Tripoli last week in order to rid it of terrorist and criminal gangs.
An eastern military source said a warplane belonging to the LNA had struck a military camp in an eastern Tripoli suburb.
In a separate strike the yard of a primary school was hit, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. An LNA official said the plane had targeted a camp of the forces loyal to Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the Government of National Accord (GNA).
Saleh also said the United Nations mission to Libya and Sarraj’s government had been controlled by armed groups and had failed to expel them from the capital, and promised Libya would hold long-delayed elections after the Tripoli operation ends.
The latest battle had by Friday killed 75 people, mainly fighters but including 17 civilians, and wounded another 323, according to UN tallies. Some 13,625 people have been forced out of their homes.
On Friday, LNA spokesman Ahmed al-Mismari revealed that ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his associates had been supplying militias with arms and fighters.
In televised remarks, he said that two military planes took off from Khartoum on March 28 carrying insurgents, "weapons and ammunition" and landed in Tripoli's Mitiga air base.
The base is under the control of militias aligned with the GNA.
Mismari expressed support for the Sudanese military, which detained Bashir in a military coup and took power.
