Libya’s warring parties and their foreign backers have likely committed war crimes and crimes against humanity since 2016, a United Nations investigation found. 

A team of investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council said Monday that attacks on hospitals, schools and migrant detention centers were common in the North African country’s civil war. As part of its investigation into extrajudicial killings, torture, sexual violence and other abuses, the Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya reviewed hundreds of documents and interviewed more than 150 people in Libya, Tunisia and Italy. 

“The violence that has plagued Libya since 2011, and which has continued almost unabated since 2016, has enabled the commission of serious violations, abuses and crimes, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, against the most vulnerable,” the report said. 

“Airstrikes have killed dozens of families. The destruction of health-related facilities has impacted access to healthcare, and anti-personnel mines left by mercenaries in residential areas have killed and maimed civilians,” said the probe’s chair, Mohamed Auajjar.