2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike

Significance

The Tajoura airstrike struck a migrant detention center outside Tripoli during the Western Libya campaign, destroying a storage hangar being used as a residential facility while hundreds of people were inside. The United Nations Human Rights Council noted that the presence of approximately 600 people in the facility was known at the time of the strike. The attack drew international attention to the conditions under which migrants and refugees attempting to reach Europe were being held in Libya, and raised questions about the conduct of air operations over civilian and humanitarian facilities during the civil war.