Nine civilians including two young children died in the attack according to the Gaddafi regime which seized on the opportunity to score propaganda points against Nato and to bolster Libya's embattled dictator.
The deaths are the first acknowledged civilian casualties caused by the alliance in what has so far been an accurate three-month bombing campaign.
They come at a time when fatigue is growing among many alliance members for a conflict that many believed would be over by the summer.
In a statement Nato said: "A military missile site was the intended target of air strikes in Tripoli.
"However, it appears that one weapon did not strike the intended target and that there may have been a weapons system failure which may have caused a number of civilian casualties."
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