Human shields, gunmen in civilian clothes Gaddafi, hospitals that lack everything from milk to anesthetics to the staff. Emerge at this time with greater accuracy the situation in Misurata, the western coastal town, 200 km from Tripoli, the center of the largest and most dramatic military operations during the last hours.
According to hospital sources, there are 40 dead (including 4 children), and 189 wounded in the fighting. The strategy of attack of the measures and initiatives at the Gaddafi on Friday. In this city, the richest and most culturally advanced of Libya, were introduced hundreds of militiamen in civilian clothes.
"They were accompanied by 11 tanks," say sources in the "Democratic Libya Information Bureau, a group that is part of the sign of the insurgents. "They were quartered in the city's main hospital, unused for four years." From here, they reached the center of Misurata, staging a show of support to Muammar Gaddafi.
"It 's one of the main propaganda tools of the regime" - Sources tell the insurgents -. "Giving the impression of popular support for the dictator." The militia, however, were not alone. With them they brought hundreds of men and women, civilians have to really be taken by force in the villages of the South "They were caught from house to house, taken away by pointing a gun." What happened then tells him to Abdelziz Salah, a lawyer who is part of the temporary city committee that governs the city.
"Gaddafi's militias in civilian clothes and human shields have been concentrated in the central square. From there, the militants started shooting. Many of the kidnapped civilians, squeezed between opposing factions, were killed. " According to local hospital sources, 82 people died last Saturday.
From that moment I began furiously fighting, the troops are supported by Gaddafi in pounding of artillery and aviation Libyan. "We still managed to maintain control of the city," say the insurgents, who accuse the allied troops to the army not intervened when pro-Gaddafi headed towards the city.
The real problem, however, now that the basic necessities and medicines. "The areas west and south of measurement are still controlled by the regime, as well as the area of sea off the town," said Saleh, "and this makes it harder to get supplies." A spokesman for the Misurata Teaching Hospital, reached by telephone (who prefers to remain anonymous) said that "at this point everything is lacking, especially milk for children and anesthetics for surgery.
But there are no medicines for chronic patients, those with cancer and diabetes. " The staff of the hospital's doctors, the few remaining nurses (many came from Eastern Europe and the Philippines, and fled at the outbreak of war) are now forced to work shifts over 20 hours. "In recent days we have treated 570 wounded - they explain - but do not know how long we can go forward," they explain.
How well do they know how long you can resist the insurgents holed up in the city. "If there is no intervention of the allied troops - Muntasser said Mohamed, another member of the City Council of the insurgents - Gaddafi's army could quickly regain control of Misurata. 
According to hospital sources, there are 40 dead (including 4 children), and 189 wounded in the fighting. The strategy of attack of the measures and initiatives at the Gaddafi on Friday. In this city, the richest and most culturally advanced of Libya, were introduced hundreds of militiamen in civilian clothes.
"They were accompanied by 11 tanks," say sources in the "Democratic Libya Information Bureau, a group that is part of the sign of the insurgents. "They were quartered in the city's main hospital, unused for four years." From here, they reached the center of Misurata, staging a show of support to Muammar Gaddafi.
"It 's one of the main propaganda tools of the regime" - Sources tell the insurgents -. "Giving the impression of popular support for the dictator." The militia, however, were not alone. With them they brought hundreds of men and women, civilians have to really be taken by force in the villages of the South "They were caught from house to house, taken away by pointing a gun." What happened then tells him to Abdelziz Salah, a lawyer who is part of the temporary city committee that governs the city.
"Gaddafi's militias in civilian clothes and human shields have been concentrated in the central square. From there, the militants started shooting. Many of the kidnapped civilians, squeezed between opposing factions, were killed. " According to local hospital sources, 82 people died last Saturday.
From that moment I began furiously fighting, the troops are supported by Gaddafi in pounding of artillery and aviation Libyan. "We still managed to maintain control of the city," say the insurgents, who accuse the allied troops to the army not intervened when pro-Gaddafi headed towards the city.
The real problem, however, now that the basic necessities and medicines. "The areas west and south of measurement are still controlled by the regime, as well as the area of sea off the town," said Saleh, "and this makes it harder to get supplies." A spokesman for the Misurata Teaching Hospital, reached by telephone (who prefers to remain anonymous) said that "at this point everything is lacking, especially milk for children and anesthetics for surgery.
But there are no medicines for chronic patients, those with cancer and diabetes. " The staff of the hospital's doctors, the few remaining nurses (many came from Eastern Europe and the Philippines, and fled at the outbreak of war) are now forced to work shifts over 20 hours. "In recent days we have treated 570 wounded - they explain - but do not know how long we can go forward," they explain.
How well do they know how long you can resist the insurgents holed up in the city. "If there is no intervention of the allied troops - Muntasser said Mohamed, another member of the City Council of the insurgents - Gaddafi's army could quickly regain control of Misurata.
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