Heavy fighting raged overnight in the battle for Libya's capital Tripoli as an offensive by Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar entered its fifth week.
There were heavy clashes between the LNA and forces backing the head of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, from Thursday afternoon until early morning Friday in the area of the former international airport but the frontline has changed little, residents said.
In Geneva, the United Nations said that despite the latest clashes, no air strikes or artillery barrages had hit civilians or residential areas.
Since the offensive began, 102 civilian casualties had been counted, 23 of them killed, it said.
More than 48,500 people in Tripoli had fled their homes for safer areas, it said, including 6,000 registered in the past 48 hours.
Others remain trapped in conflict zones, where food is running short and the wounded and sick are in need of medical help.
The UAE said on Thursday that fighting "terrorism" was a priority in Libya.
"Priority in Libya to counter extremism/terrorism and support stability in long drawn out crisis," the UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Twitter.
“Extremist militias continue to control capital and derail search for political solution," he added.
