According to Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, Israeli company Global CST owned by major general Israel Ziv, supplied 50 thousand soldiers to Libya for 5 billion USD and oil trade rights.

Libya

• 17th largest country in the world by area
• desert country – 90% of the land area is covered in desert
• country with the longest coastline of any African country bordering the Mediterranean (1770 km)
• former Italian colony – Italian North Africa from 1912 to 1927
• signed agreement with Italian prime minister to pay 5 billion USD to Libya as compensation for its former military occupation
• one quarter of GDP comes from oil sector
• imports 3/4 of food
• unemployment above 20%