Thousands of refugees and migrants trapped in detention centres across Libya should be evacuated to Europe, the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.

Deputy spokesman of the United Nations Secretary-General, Farhan Haq said that civilian victims of the aggression on Tripoli have increased to 146 casualties, including 40 fatalities.

Precariously perched 50 metres up an electricity pylon providing power to Libya’s capital, Mohamad Dahman attempts to fix damage caused by fighting – but hastily descends when a rocket explodes nearby. “We’re used to working under bombing,” he says.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Libyan Ministry of Education signed on Tuesday an agreement to provide education for children affected by the armed conflict in the country.

The water supply to the 2.5 million residents of Tripoli has been restored two days after they were cut off by gunmen, allowing the besieged capital to escape shortages that could have caused a humanitarian crisis.

Gunmen have cut off the main water pipeline to Libya‘s besieged capital Tripoli, spelling more misery for residents already reeling from weeks of fighting, residents and officials said.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Maria Ribeiro, condemns in the strongest terms the shutting down of water supplies that aims to deprive hundreds of thousands of already embattled Libyans of safe drinking water.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that the use of explosive weapons, including artillery and aerial bombardments in populated areas, has resulted in 129 civilian casualties, including 29 fatalities.

At the outset of Ramadan, Libya’s rogue general Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops to continue the military campaign to take Tripoli and to fight even harder to teach unity government forces a “greater and bigger lesson”.

Aid agencies in Libya called on Tuesday for a UN resolution to support people caught in fighting around Tripoli, where the United Nations says 66,000 people have been forced out of their homes and at least 454 killed since early April, reports Reuters.