Clashes and shelling continued Saturday, April 16 in Misrata, large coastal city in western Libya held by insurgents, which in eastern countries move from the strategic town Ajdabiya westward to for the NATO air raids. A Misrata, besieged for nearly two months, at least thirteen people were killed Friday in clashes between the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the rebels, and the shelling continued into the night, medical sources said.
The sound of loud explosions and bursts of gunfire managed the center of the city's third largest, reported a photographer of the site, adding that NATO overflights had preceded the bombing. On the humanitarian front, the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has announced the evacuation Saturday of 99 people, sent by sea to the Tunisian port of Zarzis.
NATO and the EU have strengthened their coordination Friday for a humanitarian operation prepared by the Europeans in Misrata. A meeting to be held "in the weeks to come." In the East, explosions were heard Saturday morning west of the strategic town of Ajdabiya, where the rebels have advanced their positions in favor of NATO raids against government forces.
The rebels said they controlled an area of several miles beyond this point in the desert, along the coastal road leading to the oil town of Brega, 80 km west. According to the rebels, NATO conducted air strikes in order to clear the ground and help them progress towards Brega. Some say the insurgents are already on the outskirts of the city.
Doctors in Ajdabiya reported one dead and seven wounded Friday by gunfire on the road between Ajdabiya and Brega, unable to indicate if they were civilians or rebels. Insurgents and loyalists are fighting for days Ajdabiya, a strategic communications node located 160 km south of Benghazi, the stronghold of the rebels.
NATO took over the reins March 31 military operations launched March 19 by an international coalition led by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, which had relied on the resolution 1973 of the Security Council UN to bomb the troops of Colonel Gaddafi since they represented a danger to the public.
In a joint statement released Friday in four daily newspapers, the British Prime Minister David Cameron, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama considered "impossible to imagine that Libya has a future with Gaddafi". The French Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, said that with this position of the three countries there was "definitely" coming out of the UN resolution 1973 on Libya, suggesting the adoption of a new resolution to endorse the proposed hunt Gaddafi.
"No need for a new resolution" to force Muammar Gaddafi at the start when he "lost all legitimacy," he retorted Saturday French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. 
The sound of loud explosions and bursts of gunfire managed the center of the city's third largest, reported a photographer of the site, adding that NATO overflights had preceded the bombing. On the humanitarian front, the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has announced the evacuation Saturday of 99 people, sent by sea to the Tunisian port of Zarzis.
NATO and the EU have strengthened their coordination Friday for a humanitarian operation prepared by the Europeans in Misrata. A meeting to be held "in the weeks to come." In the East, explosions were heard Saturday morning west of the strategic town of Ajdabiya, where the rebels have advanced their positions in favor of NATO raids against government forces.
The rebels said they controlled an area of several miles beyond this point in the desert, along the coastal road leading to the oil town of Brega, 80 km west. According to the rebels, NATO conducted air strikes in order to clear the ground and help them progress towards Brega. Some say the insurgents are already on the outskirts of the city.
Doctors in Ajdabiya reported one dead and seven wounded Friday by gunfire on the road between Ajdabiya and Brega, unable to indicate if they were civilians or rebels. Insurgents and loyalists are fighting for days Ajdabiya, a strategic communications node located 160 km south of Benghazi, the stronghold of the rebels.
NATO took over the reins March 31 military operations launched March 19 by an international coalition led by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, which had relied on the resolution 1973 of the Security Council UN to bomb the troops of Colonel Gaddafi since they represented a danger to the public.
In a joint statement released Friday in four daily newspapers, the British Prime Minister David Cameron, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President Barack Obama considered "impossible to imagine that Libya has a future with Gaddafi". The French Defence Minister, Gerard Longuet, said that with this position of the three countries there was "definitely" coming out of the UN resolution 1973 on Libya, suggesting the adoption of a new resolution to endorse the proposed hunt Gaddafi.
"No need for a new resolution" to force Muammar Gaddafi at the start when he "lost all legitimacy," he retorted Saturday French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe.
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