With the eastern front stagnated at around Ajdabiya, the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, seems to have set their sights on western towns held by rebels. According to the Qatari television network Al Jazeera and the newspaper Le Monde, more than a hundred people have died in the last 48 hours in the area of Jebel Nafusa, southwest of Tripoli, near the Tunisian border, especially in Yefren and Nalut locations.
Meanwhile, in Misrata, besieged by the troops of Gaddafi after seven weeks, 15 people were killed in fighting between rebels and troops of the dictator. According to the rebels, the war has already cost the lives of 10,000 people and caused injuries to 50,000. According to French newspaper have told residents, more than 100 people have died in the last two days at the hands of Gadhafi troops and Yefren Nalut, troops attacked by Qaddafi.
Nalut and Yefren are the two ends of a mountain-desert area Nafusa Mountains-surrounded, north and south by two roads (see map). "Gaddafi's battalions have not stopped bombing the region, especially in Nalut and Yefren, Grad rocket There are 110 deaths among the rebels and civilians in these two cities," he told Le Monde a resident of Yefren.
Another Nalut has been reported that Gaddafi's troops "are perpetrating a slaughter" in this mountainous area. A third witness also related that Ghazaya small town northwest of Nalut, is the scene of fighting with heavy machine guns and rockets on Sunday afternoon. According to this witness, "the rebels advancing from several sites around Ghazaya surrounding Gaddafi's forces and forcing them to leave town." Misrata, the third largest city, besieged for weeks by troops of Gaddafi, remains the scene of fierce fighting.
Sources speak of 15 rebels killed in clashes yesterday and the humanitarian situation worsens. While still dropping bombs on Libya, non-governmental organizations trying to mobilize the international comunity to mobilize to protect the civilian population. Is the Amnesty International has called for an urgent increase in immediate humanitarian aid in Misrata.
"People are trapped under fire in a situation that is rapidly drifting into a humanitarian crisis, has said Malcolm Smart, director of AI's Middle East and North Africa, in a statement. "People need urgent help and need it now," he underlined. For their part, Doctors Without Borders says that 80% of deaths in the city are civilians and medicine are scarce.
Today, Abdeljalil Mustafa, leader of the National Council, the government of the insurgents, has been estimated at 10,000 dead since the beginning of the war, that has left 50,000 wounded. It has done so on a visit to Italy, where he met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, responsible for transmitting the figure.
Meanwhile, NATO has bombed positions of the troops today Gaddafi in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Sirte, the hometown of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, as reported by the official Libyan television channel TV. The network, citing military sources, said the attacks of NATO aircraft were produced early in the morning, but did not specify the objectives achieved.
Tunisia and the island of Lampedusa, the fate of refugees Evidence that the situation in the west is worse is that more than 10,000 Libyans from the mountainous region have crossed the border with Tunisia in the last 10 days, according to figures from Alto UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"UNHCR has found that a growing number of refugees arriving Libya to Tunisia from the mountainous regions of western Libya," said in Geneva an agency spokesman, Andrej Mahecic. "Over the past weekend, around 6,000 Libyans have come to the region Dehiba, southern Tunisia. In total, we estimate that 10,000 Libyans have crossed the border in the last 10 days." Some aid agencies put the figure, previously the Tunisian news agency TAP had been at 11,000.
A boat with 760 immigrants from sub-Saharan origin on board arrived in the Italian island of Lampedusa from the coasts of Libya, according to sources have confirmed the Italian Coast Guard. The boat had been sighted in the early hours of the morning and was aided by the Italian authorities when he was forty miles south of Lampedusa.
Among immigrants who were aboard the boat were thirteen women and seventeen children. Immigrants explained to the Italian authorities had left Tripoli on Sunday. The arrival of these immigrants in the early afternoon on Tuesday adds to the other vessel, with fifty passengers, during the early morning, which marked the first landing on the island of Lampedusa since last Friday.
This first group consists of persons of Tunisian nationality and that there were two women and two children, was taken to a reception center of the island. On the other hand, near the island of Pantelleria, south of Sicily, have rescued eight immigrants, presumably a Tunisian national, who were on a barge that drifted.
Another 40 people of Egyptian, Lebanese and Iraqi, who, according to preliminary information from the available, could have started from Greece, arrived last night in the town of Margherita di Savoia, in the southern region of Apulia, and have already been moved to different shelters in the nearby towns of Foggia and Bari, according to local media. 
Meanwhile, in Misrata, besieged by the troops of Gaddafi after seven weeks, 15 people were killed in fighting between rebels and troops of the dictator. According to the rebels, the war has already cost the lives of 10,000 people and caused injuries to 50,000. According to French newspaper have told residents, more than 100 people have died in the last two days at the hands of Gadhafi troops and Yefren Nalut, troops attacked by Qaddafi.
Nalut and Yefren are the two ends of a mountain-desert area Nafusa Mountains-surrounded, north and south by two roads (see map). "Gaddafi's battalions have not stopped bombing the region, especially in Nalut and Yefren, Grad rocket There are 110 deaths among the rebels and civilians in these two cities," he told Le Monde a resident of Yefren.
Another Nalut has been reported that Gaddafi's troops "are perpetrating a slaughter" in this mountainous area. A third witness also related that Ghazaya small town northwest of Nalut, is the scene of fighting with heavy machine guns and rockets on Sunday afternoon. According to this witness, "the rebels advancing from several sites around Ghazaya surrounding Gaddafi's forces and forcing them to leave town." Misrata, the third largest city, besieged for weeks by troops of Gaddafi, remains the scene of fierce fighting.
Sources speak of 15 rebels killed in clashes yesterday and the humanitarian situation worsens. While still dropping bombs on Libya, non-governmental organizations trying to mobilize the international comunity to mobilize to protect the civilian population. Is the Amnesty International has called for an urgent increase in immediate humanitarian aid in Misrata.
"People are trapped under fire in a situation that is rapidly drifting into a humanitarian crisis, has said Malcolm Smart, director of AI's Middle East and North Africa, in a statement. "People need urgent help and need it now," he underlined. For their part, Doctors Without Borders says that 80% of deaths in the city are civilians and medicine are scarce.
Today, Abdeljalil Mustafa, leader of the National Council, the government of the insurgents, has been estimated at 10,000 dead since the beginning of the war, that has left 50,000 wounded. It has done so on a visit to Italy, where he met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, responsible for transmitting the figure.
Meanwhile, NATO has bombed positions of the troops today Gaddafi in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, Sirte, the hometown of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, as reported by the official Libyan television channel TV. The network, citing military sources, said the attacks of NATO aircraft were produced early in the morning, but did not specify the objectives achieved.
Tunisia and the island of Lampedusa, the fate of refugees Evidence that the situation in the west is worse is that more than 10,000 Libyans from the mountainous region have crossed the border with Tunisia in the last 10 days, according to figures from Alto UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
"UNHCR has found that a growing number of refugees arriving Libya to Tunisia from the mountainous regions of western Libya," said in Geneva an agency spokesman, Andrej Mahecic. "Over the past weekend, around 6,000 Libyans have come to the region Dehiba, southern Tunisia. In total, we estimate that 10,000 Libyans have crossed the border in the last 10 days." Some aid agencies put the figure, previously the Tunisian news agency TAP had been at 11,000.
A boat with 760 immigrants from sub-Saharan origin on board arrived in the Italian island of Lampedusa from the coasts of Libya, according to sources have confirmed the Italian Coast Guard. The boat had been sighted in the early hours of the morning and was aided by the Italian authorities when he was forty miles south of Lampedusa.
Among immigrants who were aboard the boat were thirteen women and seventeen children. Immigrants explained to the Italian authorities had left Tripoli on Sunday. The arrival of these immigrants in the early afternoon on Tuesday adds to the other vessel, with fifty passengers, during the early morning, which marked the first landing on the island of Lampedusa since last Friday.
This first group consists of persons of Tunisian nationality and that there were two women and two children, was taken to a reception center of the island. On the other hand, near the island of Pantelleria, south of Sicily, have rescued eight immigrants, presumably a Tunisian national, who were on a barge that drifted.
Another 40 people of Egyptian, Lebanese and Iraqi, who, according to preliminary information from the available, could have started from Greece, arrived last night in the town of Margherita di Savoia, in the southern region of Apulia, and have already been moved to different shelters in the nearby towns of Foggia and Bari, according to local media.
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