At least 42 people died this Saturday in a bombing attributed to forces under the command of Marshal Jalifa Hafter, a strong man from Libya, about a military school in Tripoli, Security sources said.

According to them, the bombardment occurred at nightfall in the Juhba area and it is believed that the number of victims could be higher, as relief services and ambulances continue to work between a mountain of rubble.

"There are dead everywhere, and many injured. We ask the population to help, blood donations are needed," said a medical source.

Minutes after the attack, fighter planes ceded by the United Arab Emirates to Hafter (LNA) forces also bombarded the Maitiga air base, the only operating airport in the Libyan capital, under military siege since last April 4.

Armed clashes between the LNA and militias related to the UN-supported government in Tripoli (GNA) have intensified in recent days with heavy fighting around the old international airport of the capital, in disuse since 2014 but of high strategic value For the conquest of the city.

According to the GNA, last Sunday their militias caused ten casualties to the enemy forces and destroyed a dozen armored cars "four of them from the United Arab Emirates."

In addition to the air support of the United Arab Emirates, Hafter has the political, military and economic support of Saudi Arabia, Russia and France while the UN-recognized government - which maintains its alliance of the powerful city-state of Misrata -, support Qatar and Turkey, the country that approved this week to send more troops to Tripoli

Since Hafter lifted the siege, more than a thousand and a half people have been killed in the fighting in the capital , more than 5,000 have been injured in various ways and more than 100,000 have been forced to leave their home and become internally displaced .

According to data from the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), 283 civilians were killed and more than 360 were injured in Libya during the fighting in 2019.

These figures represent an increase of 33% over the number of fatalities registered during the same period last year.

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