The forces of retired Major General Khalifa Haftar have intensified their bombing of civilian areas in the capital, Tripoli, and the Maitika International Airport, amid international condemnation that the indiscriminate attacks launched on populated areas in the capital may amount to war crimes.

Amin Al Hashemi, media adviser to the Libyan Ministry of Health, reported today, Saturday, the killing of three civilians, including a woman, in the shelling of Haftar forces in the Bab Bin Ghashir area in the center of the capital.

Haftar forces also targeted today more than 80 missiles at the vicinity of the Maitika International Airport in Tripoli, according to what the Libyan government forces announced in a statement published by the media center of the "Operation Fury Burying".

The Operation Volcano Anger announced that a bombing of the Maitika airport in the capital, Tripoli, resulted in damage to the Airbus 320 and 330 planes with a number of shrapnel, and they left them completely.

Official Libyan sources also reported that a civilian plane carrying European civilians was damaged by Haftar forces’s bombing of Maitika airport, and said that the shelling caused terror and fainting cases among the civilians on board.

The National Oil Corporation said that the aviation fuel tanks at Maitika International Airport in Libya were injured in an attack today, Saturday, which caused fires.

A video posted by an airport worker told Reuters black smoke billowing over the airport yard.

The effects of the bombing on the airport of Maitika (the island)

Statistics on the number of victims
For his part, Al-Jazeera correspondent in Libya, Ahmed Khalifa, quoted an official medical source that 17 Libyans were killed and 59 others, all civilians, were injured by indiscriminate shelling of Grad rockets and mortar shells fired by gunmen of Haftar forces on residential areas and neighborhoods in the capital, Tripoli, during the four days. Last.

The official source in the Ministry of Health of the National Accord Government confirmed that among the dead were women and children, and that most of the wounded, who had varying injuries, were hit by indiscriminate shells and rockets that fell on residential areas and neighborhoods in the south, east and north of the capital, most notably Abu Salim, Tajura and the Friday Market.

According to the source, the shelling resulted in severe damage to civilian property, and resulted in the destruction of their homes and cars, with which some families were forced to flee their homes.

UN condemnation
These attacks come hours after the United Nations Support Mission in Libya announced that the indiscriminate attacks by the Haftar militia on populated areas in Tripoli may amount to war crimes.

The mission added - in a statement yesterday, Friday - that the horrific bombing that affected the Zawiyah Dahmani neighborhood in Tripoli, near the Turkish embassy and the residence of the Italian ambassador, killed at least two civilians, and wounded three others.

The mission noted that, since May 1, the increase in indiscriminate attacks by the forces of Haftar - including attacks on Abu Salim, Tajura, the Badri plateau, Zanata and Zawiyat al-Dahmani - have resulted in many civilian casualties, and damage to homes and property.

Since April 4, 2019, Haftar's forces have continued their offensive to seize the capital, Tripoli, the seat of the internationally recognized government.