The Head of the Presidential Council Fayez Al-Sarraj met in Tunisia with President Beji Caid Essebsi on Wednesday and discussed the current developments in Libya and the repercussions of the attack on Tripoli, besides mutual relations.

Libyan eastern commander Khalifa Haftar, speaking on Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, ruled out a ceasefire and said he wanted to rid the capital of militias that had “infested” the UN-backed government, a French presidential official said, Reuters reports.

The United Nations’ envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has briefed the Security Council about the ongoing fighting in Tripoli, urging the member states to enforce a ceasefire in Tripoli outskirts before the war spills into the city and a civil war breaks out.

At least 510 people have been killed and 2,467 injured during the military escalation in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

The spokesman for the Libyan Anti-Terrorism Force (ATF) Abdelbasit Tika said they had not depicted movements for ISIS in the area from southern Sirte to southern Tripoli – through southern Tarhouna and Bani Walid.

The Representative of Libya at the UN Security Council Al-Mahdi Al-Majirbi told member states that Khalifa Haftar’s “agression against Tripoli” has ended the hopes of all Libyans to go to elections and build a civilian state. 

The UN envoy for Libya warned the battle for Tripoli was “just the start of a long and bloody war” and called for immediate steps to cut off arms flows fueling the fighting.

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.

44 members of the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR) in Tobruk rejected in a statement on Sunday the UN-brokerd Political Agreement signed in Morocco’s Skhirat resort in December 2015.