On 12 April, House of Representatives (HoR) member Ali Abu Zuriba held a meeting in his house in Zawiyya with the commander of the Tripoli Revolutionaries Brigade (TRB) Ayoub Abu Ras, the deputy commander of the Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) Muhammad Hassan Abu Zuriba, Muhammad Kashlaf aka al-Qasab (both are militia leaders belonging to the Awlad Abu Hmeira tribe in Zawiyya) and several other militia commanders from western Tripolitania about the military situation in the greater Tripoli area.