Misrata - at least 31 people they were killed on Friday as fighting took place in the Western City Libya of Misrata, where forces loyal to Muammar Gadhafi tried to enter from the West and South.
More than 150 were wounded, said medical sources in the Hekmah Hospital of the city.
Victims of the Friday were the heaviest in a month, said Dr Khaled Abu Falgha. Doctors chanted, "the martyrs are beloved God" each time that a patient died, he said.
The rebels said that gadhafi also forces Shell near Zlitan, well as positions of rebels at Dafniya. Tanks were rolling and witnesses in the forces of frontline pro-Gadhafi said were firing rockets and missiles.
A rebel fighter said that "it's horrible out there". "The revolutionaries are taking power tank in their breasts".
The city was under continued bombardment on Friday evening.
Misrata has taken the brunt of the fighting in Libya during the past two months. More than 1,000 people were believed that since the beginning of February, including 686 civilian residents have been killed here.
Gadhafi forces besieged Misrata and cut off access to the land, leaving the port as the only way of escape. He withdrew to the perimeter, but they were trying to regain control of the city, about 130 miles (209 km) East of Tripoli.
In Washington, Senator Carl Levin emerged from a meeting of the Committee on armed services and seemed pleased with the progress of NATO.
"I am satisfied Gadhafi soldier has been seriously degraded, that politically it has considerably weakened, that NATO operations go well, they are co-ordinated and still we have not lost a person", said the Democratic Governor of Michigan.
The President of the Commission rejected the term "deadlock" to describe the effort, which has lasted almost three months.
But Senator Jeff Sessions, also a member of the Commission, expressed impatience with the pace of NATO's progress in the North African country.
"Not sure that we are acting with critical skills that we have to affect the outcome", said the Republican from Alabama. "I felt that we had spent aggressively, as Senator (John) Kerry (D-Massachusetts) and Senator (John) McCain (R-Arizona) proposed initially, perhaps the question be completed for now".
In Brussels, Belgium, the outgoing Secretary of Defense Robert Gates United States criticized NATO as an Alliance of "two-tier" ill-equipped to deal with challenges.
In his farewell speech, on Friday at the NATO Council stands in contrast to the members "willing and able to pay the price and bear the burden of the commitments of the Alliance and those who enjoy the benefits of membership in NATO... but you want to share the risks and costs".
Gates had harsh words for the realization of the air campaign against the regime of Gadhafi. He said that he had become "painfully clear" that deficiencies could "harm the ability of the Alliance to carry out a campaign of comprehensive, effective and sustained weather".
"While each Member of the Alliance voted in favor of the Mission of Libya, less than half have participated at all, and less than one-third have been willing to participate in the Mission of the strike," he said.
Gates concluded with a warning about the American will to continue to have a growing share of the burden of NATO.
"The blunt reality is that there will be decreased appetite and patience in the Congress of United States... spend increasingly precious funds on behalf of the United Nations who are apparently willing to devote the necessary resources or make the changes necessary to participate in a serious and capable in their own defense," he said.
NATO members to better allocate their resources, to follow up the commitments and protect defence budgets to be "more destroyed" to avoid "a bleak future," Gates said.
His warning came one day after graphic world powers outside the course of a post of Libya Gadhafi met in the United Arab Emirates. The Secretary of State of United States Hillary Clinton and others urged the international community to maintain pressure on the regime Libya. A spokesman for the opposition predicted that gadhafi would fall within days.
But the struggle on Friday was evidence that, despite 10,439 sorties by aircraft of NATO and a revolt of a strong opposition, Gadhafi remained strong.
NATO officials have repeatedly said that air strikes were exclusively aimed at military targets, but a senior military official in NATO with operational knowledge of the Mission has told CNN that attack to Gadhafi was justified under the mandate of the United Nations of Libya.
The resolution applies to the Libyan leader because, as Chief of the armed forces, is part of the structure of command and control, and therefore a legitimate target, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The official was not authorized to speak with the media.
But the NATO official refused to give a direct answer when asked if he was still white Gadhafi.
Spokesman for the NATO Oana Lungescu, however, said that the Alliance was not specifically to Gadhafi.
Lungescu said that "we address critical military capabilities that could be used to attack civilians, including command and control centres that could be used to plan and organize this kind of attack,".
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