Libya prosecutor promises to investigate secret meeting with Israel

Libya’s chief prosecutor plans to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate a meeting between the foreign minister of one of the country’s rival governments and Israel’s chief diplomat, he said on Saturday. Najla Mangoush, as foreign minister of the Tripoli-based government, and Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met in Rome in what was the first meeting between senior officials of Libya and Israel. On Saturday, General Prosecutor Al-Sediq Al Sour said the fact-finding mission would look at breaches of Libya’s rules of boycotting Israel and “investigate the extent of damage to Libya’s interests” because of the Mangoush-Cohen meeting. Ms Mangoush fled to Turkey after being fired for having the meeting, and it is thought she may now be in the UK. Activists had renewed calls for demonstrations against the interim government of national unity (GNU) and Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh over the meeting.