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Incident Date
20 November 2019
Incident Code
LC248
Location
منتزه هابي لاند بارك, HappyLand Park, Tarabulus, Libya
Several civilians were allegedly injured by LNA artillery shelling on Ain Zara. Libya Alahrar TV posted pictures of the aftermath, saying: "Photos showing some of the effects of the destruction of houses and their properties in the area of Ain Zara behind the areas of clashes due to the indiscriminate shelling of Hafter gunmen, which…
Summary
Published
20 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
18 November 2019
Incident Code
LC245
Location
مصنع السنبلة للبسكويت, Sunbulah biscuit factory, Tarabulus, Libya
Between seven and ten civilians were reportedly killed in an LNA or Emirati airstrike on a biscuit factory in Wadi al Rabie. Reuters said: "At least seven workers were killed and another 35 wounded in an air strike that hit a biscuit factory on Monday in a southern suburb of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, emergency…
Summary
Published
18 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
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Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
7–10
Civilians reported injured
15–35
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date
18 November 2019
Incident Code
LC246
Location
طرابلس: مشروع الهضبة, Tripoli: Hadaba project, Tarabulus, Libya
One child was allegedly killed by indiscriminate shelling on the Hadaba project in Tripoli. Tk Yahrough Kl shy said: "The death of Khaled Mohammed Muftah Al-Mashay as a result of an indiscriminate shell landing last night on his house in line 6 in Hadaba project area." Hona Souq Al-Khmies published a similar report. Local reports…
Summary
Published
18 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
Government of National Accord
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Incident Date
18 November 2019
Incident Code
LC247
Location
الرويسات, Al Ruwaisat, Misrata, Libya
Up to 13 civilians were reportedly injured in an LNA or foreign airstrike on Misurata. According to Al Wasat twelve people were injured. The Libya Observer reported: "13 people wounded in intense airstrikes believed to be conducted by foreign warplanes allied to warlord Haftar on locations inside residential areas in Misrata Monday night." Al Wasat…
Summary
Published
18 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
12–13
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
Unknown
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Incident Date
14 November 2019
Incident Code
LC244
Location
الزهور, Al Zohour, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was allegedly killed by LNA artillery shelling on the Al Zohour neighbourhood of Tripoli. The Libya Observer reported: "Meanwhile, one person was killed in Al-Zohoor neighborhood in Tripoli after 10 Grad rockets fired by Haftar's forces fell on the residential area Thursday. Al-Zohoor neighborhood in Salah Al-Deen in southern Tripoli has been seeing…
Summary
Published
14 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
13 November 2019
Incident Code
LC242
Location
الدبلوماسي, Adduplomasi, Tarabulus, Libya
Four to five civilians form one family were reportedly injured by LNA shelling on Ain Zara. According to the Libya Observer four civilians were injured by indiscriminate shelling. Al Wasat said: "A family was injured when a shell hit a house in the Diplomasi neighborhood of Ain Zara. The spokesman for the authorities, in a…
Summary
Published
13 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported injured
4–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
13 November 2019
Incident Code
LC243
Location
سوق السبت, Saturday Market, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was reportedly killed by a GNA artillery strike on Qasr Bin Gashir. Afrigate reported: "The Municipal Council of Qasr Bin Gashir announced that the house of the family of Abdul Razzaq Abu Sedira was targeted by Grad rockets fired by forces belonging to the Western Military Area Command of the GNA." Hona Souq…
Summary
Published
13 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
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Incident Date
10 November 2019
Incident Code
LC241
Location
صلاح الدين, Salaheddin, Tarabulus, Libya
Two civilians were allegedly killed by LNA artillery shelling on the Salaheddin neighbourhood of Tripoli. The Libya Observer wrote: "Khalifa Haftar's artillery weapons attacked southern Tripoli neighborhoods, including Salah Al-Deen where two civilians were killed and others were wounded, media office of Volcano of Rage Operation said. The spokesman for Ministry of Health Fawzi Awnis…
Summary
Published
10 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
2
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
9 November 2019
Incident Code
LC240
Location
طرابلس: طريق المطار, Tripoli: Airport road, Tarabulus, Libya
Three civilians were allegedly injured by indiscriminate artillery shelling in the south of Tripoli. Tk Yahroug Kl shy reported: "A shell hit a house on the airport road near the self-sufficiency (Al Iktifa’ Al Zati) project and injured three family members, we ask God for safety." Local reports of fighting point at GNA or LNA…
Summary
Published
9 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
5 November 2019
Incident Code
LC238
Location
محطة وقود القرقني, Al Garqni Petrol Station, Tarabulus, Libya
Up to three non-combatants were allegedly killed in an LNA airstrike on Ain Zara. Al Wasat said: "The Interior Ministry of the GNA announced on Tuesday that two of its members were killed in the shelling of the headquarters of the Rapid Intervention Force at the General Directorate of Central Support in Ain Zara. The…
Summary
Published
5 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
(
Drone Strike
)
Civilians reported killed
3
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
5 November 2019
Incident Code
LC239
Location
الرملة, Al Ramla, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was allegedly killed by an airstrike in the Al Ramla area of Qasr Bin Gashir. Libya Alahrar TV reported: "Al-Swani Field Hospital of the Center for Field Medicine and Support reported that the body of Khaled Salem Al-Marghani was recovered from Al-Khuwaildi area. Al-Swani field hospital said that Khaled al-Marghani was subjected to…
Summary
Published
5 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Unknown
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Incident Date
4 November 2019
Incident Code
LC234
Location
طرابلس: مدرسة رجب النائب, Tripoli: Rajab Al-Naeb elementary school, Tarabulus, Libya
One child was allegedly injured by indiscriminate shelling the Salaheddin area of Tripoli. Al Wasat reported: "Witnesses told 'Central Gate', that indiscriminate shells hit in the Salaheddin area in the capital Tripoli, one fell on a house, and another was near a primary school, wounding a child and residents of the house. One of the…
Summary
Published
4 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
4 November 2019
Incident Code
LC235
Location
مصحة النخبة, Al Nokhba Clinic, Tarabulus, Libya
A child was allegedly killed by LNA artillery shelling on the Salaheddin neighbourhood of Tripoli. The Libya Observer posted: "A boy named Mohammed Naghasa was killed in rocket attacks by warlord Haftar’s armed groups on Salah Eddin neighbourhood in Tripoli today. Earlier, Haftar's media office released a propaganda video showing militiamen conducting unguided artillery strikes…
Summary
Published
4 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
4 November 2019
Incident Code
LC236
Location
أربع شوارع زويته, Al Zuwaita Junction, Tarabulus, Libya
Several civilians were allegedly injured by an LNA airstrike on Ain Zara. Afrigate News said, referring to the Field Medicine and Support Center: "[...] and another person was injured in 4 streets Zowita in Ain Zara area of the capital Tripoli. Al-Mishri caused shrapnel wounds to his son and was transferred to a clinic for…
Summary
Published
4 November 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
4 November 2019
Incident Code
LC237
Location
طريق الشوك, Al Shok Road, Tarabulus, Libya
One child was allegedly injured by indiscriminate shelling on Salaheddin in Tripoli. Afrigate News said: "The [Field Medicine and Support] Center also announced that a Moroccan child was injured by shrapnel from a shell that hit his house on Tareeq Al Shouk in Tripoli and another person was injured in the Ain Zara area of…
Summary
Published
4 November 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
31 October 2019
Incident Code
LC232
Location
Tripoli: Ministry of Interior, Tarabulus, Libya
Up to ten civilians were allegedly injured by an LNA airstrike near the Ministry of Interior in Tripoli. Al Wasat said: "A mother and her husband and four of their children were injured as a result of an aerial bombardment that hit their house on the airport road in the capital Tripoli." The Libya Observer…
Summary
Published
31 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
8–10
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
31 October 2019
Incident Code
LC233
Location
الطويشة, Altwaisha, Tarabulus, Libya
Up to five civilians were reportedly killed by LNA shelling on Qasr Bin Gashir. Libya Alahrar TV and Am Malik reported three civilians deaths. Akhbar Libya reported: "Five members of one family were killed in a bombing in Qasr Bin Gashir. Bombing on the road killed five people from the same family, the municipal council…
Summary
Published
31 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
3–5
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
30 October 2019
Incident Code
LC231
Location
Hamza Military Camp, Tarabulus, Libya
Between one and three civilians were reportedly injured by indiscriminate shelling on Khela Ben Oun. Al Mashhad wrote: "Witnesses said that Al Matabat street near the camp Hamza witnessed the fall of a random shell, injuring a Sudanese worker and damaging a number of civilian cars." Tk Yahrouq Kl shy initially reported two injured but…
Summary
Published
30 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
29 October 2019
Incident Code
LC230
Location
الطويشة, Altwaisha, Tarabulus, Libya
A family was allegedly injured by indiscriminate artillery shelling on Altwaisha in Qasr Bin Gashir. Hona Souq Al-Khmies reported: "Family injured in Altwaisha as a result of the fall of missiles on the house." Local reports of fighting point at GNA or LNA as the culprit. There is currently no other information available.
Summary
Published
29 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3–5
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
28 October 2019
Incident Code
LC229
Location
جامع محمد الدرة, Mohammed Al Durra Mosque, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was reportedly injured by GNA artillery shelling on the Fornaj neighbourhood of Tripoli. Tk Yahrouq Kl shy: "The fall of a mortar shell on a mosque (Al-Durra mosque specifically) in Fornaj opposite Tripoli Medical Center and the injury of a mosque worker, we ask God for safety." Afrigate reported the shelling of the…
Summary
Published
28 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
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Incident Date
26 October 2019
Incident Code
LC228
Location
عين زارة, Ain Zara, Tarabulus, Libya
Three civilians were allegedly injured by an LNA artillery strike on Ain Zara. Libya Alahrar TV said: "Ain Zara: Commander Yusuf al-Amin confirms that a woman and her two children were injured in artillery shelling of Hafter militants in the area." It added: "Al-Wefaq Health Spokesman Fawzi Onis confirms that the family were injured in…
Summary
Published
26 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
24 October 2019
Incident Code
LC227a
Location
مطار الكفرة, Kufra Airport, Al Kufrah, Libya
One civilian was reported killed and one or two reported injured by an explosive remnant of war in Kufra. Al Wasat said: "Two youths were injured when a shell exploded in the airport neighborhood in the southeastern city of Kufra on Thursday evening, local sources said. The sources said that the shell was a remnant…
Summary
Published
24 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike and/or Artillery
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
1–2
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Unknown
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Incident Date
24 October 2019
Incident Code
LC226
Location
صلاح الدين, Salaheddin, Tarabulus, Libya
One paramedic was allegedly killed in an LNA or Emirati airstrike on a field hospital in the Salaheddin neighbourhood of Tripoli. Afrigate News said: "One of the members of the ambulance and emergency department centre was killed by aerial bombardment in the Salaheddin area south of Tripoli. The centre said that one of the members…
Summary
Published
24 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Civilians reported injured
4
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
,
LNA/UAE Military/Egyptian Military
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Incident Date
24 October 2019
Incident Code
LC227
Location
وادي الربيع, Wadi al Rabie, Tarabulus, Libya
A nurse was reportedly injured in an LNA airstrike on a field hospital in Wadi al Rabie. Al Wasat reported: "The media office of Operation Volcano of Wrath announced that a nurse was injured in an aerial bombardment that targeted the field hospital in Wadi al Rabie axis south of the capital Tripoli. The office…
Summary
Published
24 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
23 October 2019
Incident Code
LC224
Location
شارع الأصفاح, Al Asfah Road, Tarabulus, Libya
Between two and three civilians were allegedly killed in an LNA airstrike on Al-Swani or the Ramla neighbourhood of Tripoli. Anadolu Agency reported: "Two civilians were killed and three others wounded in a bombardment of warplanes in support of retired Major General Khalifa Hafter, targeting the Al-Swani neighbourhood south of Tripoli, the GNA announced on…
Summary
Published
23 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
3–8
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
23 October 2019
Incident Code
LC225
Location
مسجد المقداد بن عمرو, Miqdad bin Amr Mosque, Tarabulus, Libya
One paramedic was reportedly killed by an LNA airstrike on the Khallet Al Furjan neighbourhood of Tripoli. Hona Souq Al-Khmies initially reported an air raid in the area and later said that they "targeted a field hospital of Khallet Al Furjan and the killed of one of the paramedics." The Libya Observer later said: "The…
Summary
Published
23 October 2019
Strike Type
Airstrike
Civilians reported killed
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
22 October 2019
Incident Code
LC222
Location
صلاح الدين, Salaheddin, Tarabulus, Libya
Between two and three children were killed in an LNA artillery strike on the Salaheddin neighbourhood of Tripoli. Al Wasat reported: "Amin al-Hashemi, media advisor to the Ministry of Health in the government of Al-Wefaq, announced the death of two children and the injury of a child from the Zlitni family in an artillery shelling…
Summary
Published
22 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Civilians reported injured
3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
22 October 2019
Incident Code
LC223
Location
مشروع الهضبة, Hadaba project, Tarabulus, Libya
One civilian was reportedly injured by indiscriminate shelling on the Hadaba project in Tripoli. The Ambulance Services Libya said: "The driver Abdul Basset al-Muqtaf, who was just injured by shrapnel in the head after rescuing some families who were hit by indiscriminate shells on their homes in the area of the project." Al Wasat published…
Summary
Published
22 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
17 October 2019
Incident Code
LC221
Location
بئر التوتة, Bi'r Altota, Tarabulus, Libya
Civilian casualties were reported because of indiscriminate shelling on the Bi'r Altota neighbourhood of Qasr Bin Gashir. Tk Yahroug Kl Shy said: "The house of Amer al-Fires in Bir al-Touta area was hit by indiscriminate shells, causing civilian casualties." There is currently no other information available. Local reports point at the GNA or LNA as…
Summary
Published
17 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported killed
2–3
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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Incident Date
16 October 2019
Incident Code
LC220
Location
عين زارة, Ain Zara, Tarabulus, Libya
An ambulance driver was reportedly injured by indiscriminate shelling on Ain Zara. Ambulance Services Libya said: "The driver Mohamed Fawzi of the rescue team was injured by a shell while he was working in the Ain Zara area and was transferred to the medical center for treatment." Later it added: "The ambulance and emergency team…
Summary
Published
16 October 2019
Strike Type
Artillery
Civilians reported injured
1
Causes of Death / Injury
Heavy weapons and explosive munitions
Military Actor
Government of National Accord
,
Libyan National Army
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