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Loyalist and Rebel
Operations
First Battle of Benghazi
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A government revolutionary committee office after it was torched by demonstrators, in Benghazi's downtown.
Date 17 February 2011 – 20 February 2011
Location Benghazi, al-Baida & Derna, Libya
Decisive Anti-Gaddafi/NCLO victory
Result
• Beginning of the 2011 Libyan uprising
• Benghazi becomes a core of the Anti-Gaddafi forces.
Anti-Gaddafi forces
Civillians
Commanders and leaders
Defected Army Units
Gen. Abdul Fatah Younis (last day) Al-Saadi al-Gaddafi [1]
Strength
Gaddafi Loyalists Military of Libya Paramilitary forces
10,000 [2] Khamis Brigade Fadheel Brigade Tariq Brigade [3] 325 mercenaries [4]
Casualties and losses
Benghazi: 110 [5] -257 [6] killed, 9 missing [7]
al-Baida: 63 killed [8]
Derna: 29 killed [8]
Rebel soldiers: 130 killed [9]
Total: 332-479 killed, 9 missing
3 T-54/55 tanks or BMPs destroyed
111 killed (military)
50 killed, 236 captured, 39 missing
(mercenaries)
2 killed (police)
Total: 163 killed, 236 captured
3 T-54/55 tanks or BMPs destroyed [10][11]
The First Battle of Benghazi occurred as part of the 2011 Libyan uprising between army units and militiamen loyal to Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi and Anti-Gaddafi forces, with clashes occurring in Benghazi, al-Bayda and Derna. In Benghazi itself most of
the fighting occurred during a siege of the government-controlled Katiba compound. [5]
Beginning The fighting in Benghazi started on 17 February, after two days of protests in the city. Security forces opened fire on
protesters, killing 14. The next day, a funeral procession for one of those killed passed the Katiba compound. Accounts differ on