By Euronews with APFor many Libyans, the collective grief over the more than 11,000 dead has morphed into a rallying cry for national unity in a country blighted by 12 years of conflict and division. Rescue teams search for victims in Derna, Libya, on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. "The wound or pain of what happened in Derna hurt all the people from western Libya to southern Libya to eastern Libya,” he said. Gen. Khalifa Hifter’s forces besieged Tripoli in a yearlong failed military campaign to try to capture the capital, killing thousands. “The next flood will be over them.”The tragedy follows a long line of problems born from the country’s lawlessness.

Source: Libya Today September 17, 2023 15:50 UTC