The United Nations Mission in Libya condemned the bombing of the Military College in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Saturday, which killed at least 30 people and wounded more than 16 people, including civilians.

"The mission stresses that the escalating escalation in military actions in this dangerous manner further complicates the situation in Libya and threatens opportunities for a return to the political process," a statement issued to the mission said on its official website.

The statement stated that "the continuous persistence in indiscriminate shelling of civilians and service civil facilities such as hospitals, schools, etc., may amount to war crimes, and perpetrators will not escape punishment for long or short."

Some marches took place in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and in the cities of Zuwara, Al-Zawiya, and Misrata condemning the attack, while a large number of citizens flocked to the blood donation centers after calls by the Ministry of Health for citizens to contribute to saving the lives of the wounded.

Al-Wefaq accuses Haftar
For its part, the "Volcano Anger" operation of the Al-Wefaq government accused the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar of responsibility for the aerial bombardment.

"Flying support for the war criminal, Hifter, has bombed the military college and left dozens of dead and wounded," she wrote on her official Facebook page.

She also published pictures showing a number of the injured and the bodies of the college students, and the effects of the destruction of the college's main courtyard, where the site of the aerial bombardment.

While the Libyan Army Expeditionary Force Commander confirmed that UAE drones were the ones that bombed the Military College, and there has been no comment yet from Haftar's forces.

what happened?
According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the National Accord Government, Amin Al Hashemi, "The students were performing the evening gathering process in the main courtyard of the college in preparation for entering their private wards, before the patio was subjected to an air strike that caused this large number of casualties."

The spokesman confirmed an urgent appeal to Tripoli residents to go to the hospitals to donate blood due to the critical injuries recorded among the college students.

Since the toppling of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in 2011, Libya has been experiencing violent confrontations since April 4, when Haftar's forces launched an offensive to take control of Tripoli, the headquarters of the National Accord government headed by Faiz al-Sarraj.

The fighting has killed about 300 civilians and displaced 146,000 people, according to Ghassan Salameh, the international envoy to Libya.