Maram Wafa, a resident of Tripoli, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier and urged everyone in the city to "please remain [at] home, remain safe because the city is full of snipers".

"The city is really not safe, even if it is under our control still it is really not safe, we really have to be careful," she told Al Jazeera.

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