Five medics were killed and eight others wounded in an airstrike by a warplane belonging to warlord Khalifa Haftar on a field hospital in the Airport Road in Tripoli on Saturday.

The Head of Field Medicine and Support Center condemned the repeated airstrikes on the field hospitals, demanding the international community to stop attacks on medical institutions and medical staff.

The Ministry of Health also condemned the airstrike saying in a statement that such attacks on medical institutions violate all local and international laws and conventions.

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