A rebel fighter (front) position with his rifle as a colleague takes fighters (partially hidden) a machine gun on the front along the April 2011 manned western entrance of the Ajdabiyah 20.
Credit: Reuters/AMR Abdallah DalshBy Michael GeorgyMISRATA, Libya | Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:47 pm EDT
MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - fighting in Libya's besieged rebel city Misratah killed at least 10 civilians also an Oscar nominated British film maker and NATO calls to avoid troops so that it could step up bombing civilians.
Among the dead "Restrepo" and American photographer of Chris Hondros, killed British photojournalist Tim Hetherington, Co-Director of the Oscar nominated war documentary, as a group they were in came under mortar fire.
A Ukrainian physician and seven Libyan civilians also were killed, while medics said fierce fighting in Libya the third-largest city.
France promised the rebels on Wednesday it would step up air strikes against Libyan Government forces and dispatch of military liaison officers, echo a movement of Great Britain, to poorly trained insurgents.
Rebels said that they were in the struggle for control of a highway in Misurata, a port of 300,000 people and the rebels last bastion in the West of the country, in the civil war in February over demands for an end to the ignited Gaddafi's 41-year rule.
Medical wounded her legs, according to Khalid Abufalgha, a doctor in the Committee of Misurata around 120 people including the wife of Ukrainian physician, who have lost both, the civilian casualties tracked.
Abufalgha said a total of 365 people were killed including at least 85 civilians, and came before under Government siege 4,000 people in the Mediterranean city since it wounded about seven weeks. Civilians say they live in constant fear of Government snipers.
"Mohammed and his friends were in our garage." She went outside to play, when he had to stop, attracting to his shoe. At this time the ball hit head, "said Zeinab, mother of a 10-year-old boy who was with a gunshot wound in the bed."
Rebels complained that there is little NATO air strikes.
"NATO was inefficient in Misurata." NATO could not completely change things on the ground, "rebel spokesman Abdelsalam said."
Libyan State television said early Thursday that NATO troops of the al-Farjan Khallat area of the capital Tripoli, seven people killed and wounded 18 others made. The report was not immediately independently verified.
Rebel spokesman Abdulrahman, reached by telephone from the Western City of Zintan, said disputes in Nalut, where took place close to the western border with Tunisia.
"Discussions are currently in Nalut occur and have been since Monday." Forces use the Gaddafi Grad rockets and mortar rounds attack Nalut. It is not even fight. "The rebels are not well armed."
NATO TELLS CIVILIANS GADDAFI POWER TO AVOID
Canadian Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, Commander who operations, said NATO Libya Libyan civilians to carry out way of Gaddafi's forces NATO air strikes help should keep.
"Civilians NATO support by by the Gaddafi regime troops and equipment as distancing themselves." Bouchard said as a result these troops and equipment with more success... the NATO strike allows "in a statement."
Agencies say that the humanitarian situation turned grave in Misratah due to lack of food and pharmaceutical supplies.
Forces loyal to Al-Qadhafi have Misratah strongly was bombarded in recent weeks. The Government denies that it targeted civilians in the city.
There are long queues for gasoline, and electricity has been reduced, so that residents rely on generators. Thousands of stranded foreign migrant workers expect salvation in the port area.
President Barack Obama and the British Prime Minister on Wednesday to raise David Cameron diplomatic and economic pressure to Gaddafi, the White House said.
France said, that it up to 10 military advisors to Libya, in the wake of Britain's plan to up to a dozen officers to improve rebel organization and communication help to send would send. Neither country plans, arm or train you to fight the insurgents.
In Paris pledged French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the UN-backed NATO intervention has led, stronger military action at a first meeting with the leader of the opposition Libyan national Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil.
"In fact we intensify the attacks and to respond to this request from the national transition Council," an official in the President's Office said, quote to say Sarkozy as Abdel Jalil: "We help you."
He has not said, as NATO forces planned the halt to overcome on the ground after the last week dropped United States and some European allies to ground strikes join.
Abdel Jalil told reporters that he had invited to visit Sarkozy to the eastern rebel power Center City Benghazi underline, French support for end to Gaddafi's autocratic term and "boost the morale of the revolution."
French officials did not say whether Sarkozy had accepted.
A source with knowledge of the situation direct evidence on Wednesday that sanctions import Gaddafi's Government United Nations, gasoline western Libya with agents who transfer to dodge the fuel between ships in Tunisia has appeared, the news agency of Reuters.
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