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Will families of Libyan airstrike victims ever get justice?

Five years on, NATO has yet to be forthcoming about how and how many civilians died during its battle to overthrow former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
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On June 19, 2011, a NATO airstrike killed five members of the al-Gherari family as they slept in their adjacent homes in Tripoli. Sixteen people were sleeping at the two houses when, at around 1:15 a.m., at least one missile struck the compound. It killed Karima al-Gherari, her husband Abdullah Nimr, her brother Faraj al Gherari, and Karima’s 2-year-old and 7-month-old children.

Al-Monitor obtained police reports listing the causes of death as “burns sustained from shrapnel,” “falling debris due to airstrike,” and “fracture and burns.”

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