2019 Tajoura migrant center airstrike

Overview

On 2 July 2019 at 23:30, during the Western Libya campaign, an airstrike hit the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli,Libya, while hundreds of people were inside the facility. The detention center was being used as a holding facility for migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe when a storage hangar that it used as a residential facility was destroyed in an aerial bombing. The United Nations Human Rights Council stated that "It was known that there were 600 people living inside" the facility.

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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.