The parents of that family, Mr. Jawad, are very strict in their homes and well-known in the countryside.
Rebel forces from the east overcame loyalist fighters who had hemmed them in for months outside Brega and pushed on to Ras Lanuf and Bin Jawad, whose tribesmen had hitherto remained loyal.
Control of Bin Jawad had already switched three times in the past month and the town is now largely deserted.