LIBYA
One Bomb Too Far
The United Nations envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, decried an air strike on a migrant detention center in Tripoli that killed at least 44 people and wounded 130 others as a possible war crime, as the gruesome incident prompted new soul-searching over the European Union’s efforts to prevent such migrants from crossing the Mediterranean Sea.
It’s not yet clear who is responsible for the air strike, though the UN-recognized government in Tripoli blamed rebel commander Khalifa Haftar, whose forces have been fighting to seize the city, Al Jazeera reported.
“The absurdity of this ongoing war today has led this odious bloody carnage to its most hideous and most tragic consequences,” the UN Support Mission in Libya said in a statement.
Haftar’s Libyan National Army denied responsibility for the strike, which followed a warning by the commander of its air force that aerial bombardment would be stepped up because “traditional means” to “liberate Tripoli” had been exhausted.
Notably, Haftar seems incapable of taking Tripoli despite the backing of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Economist reported.
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