A reliable source has told 218TV that UNMSIL has sent an assessment team to Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport after it is targeted this dawn with a number of artillery shells.
The source said the assessment team of the UNSMIL checked the area where the shells had fallen and the damage that was caused to a Libyan Airlines plane, which is now out of service after being hit by shrapnel.
Flights are still suspended at Mitiga Airport as they have been redirected to Misrata Airport – 200 km from Tripoli.
Meanwhile, the Libyan Health Ministry of the Government of National Accord (GNA) said four people – three of whom were hajis (pilgrims) – were injured, while about 30 others hajis suffered faint and pressure traumas.
The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj visited Mitiga Airport on Sunday dawn to check on the safety of hajis and passengers, according to the media office of Al-Sarraj.
Attacks on Mitiga Airport have come recurrent recently, which was condemned by the the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) saying that those attacks were systematic and random targeting with heavy artillery weapons and airstrikes against the airport.
NCHRL added in a statement that those attacks amount to war crimes as per Item No.2 of Article No.8 of the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court.
In the meantime, the UN envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, expressed concern over the repetitive attacks against Mitiga Airport, saying the attacks were evidence of the growing violence against civilians due to Tripoli war.
