A/HRC/43/75 the increasing use of explosive weapons, including artillery, mortars, rockets and grenades, causing even more civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure. 7. Since March, intercommunal violence and fighting between Tebu and Ahali communities in Murzuq increased. 2 In early June, 16 men were reported killed and 17 others, including four women, injured in such clashes. While these clashes were primarily of an intercommunal nature, the airstrikes against Murzuq on 4 August by the Libyan National Army sparked fighting between the Tebu and Ahali communities, resulting in killing, kidnapping, the burning of private houses and consequent displacement. As at August, 5,293 families had been displaced from Murzuq and surrounding areas (approximately 26,465 individuals), mainly from the Ahali community.3 8. On 10 August, in Benghazi, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated, targeting an UNSMIL convoy, killing three United Nations staff members and wounding 10 civilians, including a four-year-old boy and two United Nations staff members. No one claimed responsibility. 9. UNSMIL intensified engagement with international stakeholders in Libya aimed at implementing the three-step initiative, which the Special Representative of the SecretaryGeneral for Libya presented to the Security Council on 29 July. Germany played an active role in the preparations of an international summit on Libya in Berlin. The goal of the process was to unify the positions of the currently divided international community in creating a suitable and enabling environment for an intra-Libyan dialogue to end violence and restart a political process. In this context, five senior official meetings of the Berlin process with the international community were chaired by Germany and UNSMIL to prepare the modalities of a cessation of hostilities, a return to the political process, the effective upholding of international human rights and international humanitarian law, the implementation of the arms embargo, the reform of the security sector, and economic reform. UNSMIL made substantial efforts to detail and operationalize these modalities. 10. Through the UNSMIL Human Rights, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Division, OHCHR continued to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in Libya, including through a reduced presence in Tripoli and occasional missions to other parts of the country. UNSMIL/OHCHR engaged in regular dialogue with the authorities, armed groups, civil society actors and other stakeholders in Libya. Despite the challenges posed by the unpredictable security environment, restricted access to certain parts of Libya and political polarization, UNSMIL continued its efforts to provide technical support and capacity-building to key Libyan government institutions and civil society organizations in Tripoli, as well as in Tunisia. 11. On 17 October, Libya was elected as a member of the Human Rights Council for a three-year term, beginning on 1 January 2020.4 Libya pledged to, inter alia, support United Nations programmes that play an important role in the protection of human rights, establish a constructive dialogue with all civil society organizations and non-governmental organizations active in the field of human rights, and cooperate with OHCHR and the Human Rights Council (see A/74/107). 2 3 4 Resentment by local Tebu against the Ahali dates back to January 2019, during the LNA offensive to gain control of Murzuq, when some Ahali aligned with the LNA attacked local Tebu, who had dominated the town since 2011. See https://displacement.iom.int/system/tdf/reports/ET_August_2019_RA_Final.pdf?file=1&type= node&id=6973. www.un.org/press/en/2019/ga12204.doc.htm. 3