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Reporter in Misrata: ‘We’re under siege’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Government forces launch strikes on Misrata, a witness says<\/li>\n
  • The witness says there’s fighting just outside the city<\/li>\n
  • The city center is calm, according to the witness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    (CNN)<\/strong> — Conflict seethed on the outskirts of battle-scarred Misrata Tuesday, and Libyan government forces launched strikes on the besieged city, a witness told CNN.<\/p>\n

    The witness reported street fighting and confrontations between pro- and anti-government forces in the suburbs and said the pro-Gadhafi strikes came from 12 to 18 miles away from the city.<\/p>\n

    However, the witness said, the city center is calm. There’s no street-to-street fighting in the urban cauldron and Tripoli Street, the city’s main boulevard, is clear, the witness said.<\/p>\n

    Misrata has been the scene of some of the deadliest battles of the war as rebels attempt to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who has been in power for more than four decades.<\/p>\n

    Hundreds of people have been killed in the battle for the city, which has been under siege by Gadhafi’s forces for seven weeks. Its population of about 450,000 makes it the country’s third-largest city.<\/p>\n

    “As fighting continues to rage in Misrata, the families recently evacuated by boats to Tobruk from the embattled city describe a catastrophic situation with many having lived in fear of indiscriminate shelling. Many houses and buildings have been destroyed and some families had to move several times,” the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

    The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said parts of the city have lacked electricity and water and people have been hiding in their homes for two months “before seizing the opportunity of a lull in fighting to get to the harbour and board a boat.”<\/p>\n

    “Sniper fire, street clashes and shelling have prevented people from venturing outside of their homes to get food and medicine,” the agency said.<\/p>\n

    “In some neighbourhoods in Misrata, pregnant women gave birth in their homes as it would have been too dangerous to make the trip to the hospital.”<\/p>\n

    The U.N. refugee agency also said about 30,000 Libyan civilians have fled the fighting to Tunisia from their homes in the western mountain region in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

    NATO is leading an international military operation in Libya that includes airstrikes targeting Gadhafi’s military resources. It is operating under a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing all means necessary to protect civilians.<\/p>\n

    On Monday, the White House said U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “agreed that attacks against civilians must stop and that (Gadhafi) must step down and depart Libya permanently in order for there to be a lasting solution that reflects the will of the Libyan people.”<\/p>\n

    Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called Obama on Monday to tell him of his decision to provide additional military support to the NATO mission by authorizing air-to-ground strikes on Libyan regime targets, the White House said.<\/p>\n

    CNN’s Raja Razek contributed to this report<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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