European and American unleashed warplanes against Libya

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Egyptian refugee Jamal Anas, 38 who was separated from his children during evacuation, is comforted by an aid worker as he reacts on board a boat that evacuated foreign refugees and injured residents, who were trapped for weeks by the fighting in Misrata, and docked at the port of Benghazi, Libya Monday, April 18, 2011. Moammar Gadhafi's government has promised the U.N. access to the besieged rebel city of Misrata, a senior U.N. official said Monday, following weeks of heavy shelling of the city by Libyan government forces.​

 

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Doctors work on a baby who suffered cuts from shrapnel that blasted through the window of his home earlier in the morning during fighting in the besieged city at a hospital on April 18, 2011 in Misrata, Libya.​

 

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Wounded Libyan civilians arrive in Benghazi after they were evacuated from the devastated Libyan city of Misrata, on April 18, 2011. A ferry rescued almost 1,000 people from Misrata and Britain said it plans to pick up 5,000 more, as UN officials said Moamer Kadhafi's government has guaranteed 'safe passage' for foreign aid workers and to let a UN mission into the besieged port city.​

 

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A man passes graffiti caricatures related to Moammar Gadhafi and Brega, during a funeral in Benghazi, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The writing on the wall reads "the greatest rat of all," in Arabic.​

 

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SHAPE's Chief of Allied Operations Brigadier General Mark van Uhm briefs the media on the NATO no-fly zone operations in Libya at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels April 19, 2011. NATO said on Tuesday it had destroyed dozens of tanks and other armoured vehicles that have been besieging the Libyan city of Misrata, but conceded there were limits to what air power could do to end the siege.​

 

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A convoy of Libyan rebels deploy around the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Europe is ready to send an armed force to Libya to ensure delivery of humanitarian aid and Britain said Tuesday it will dispatch senior military officers to advise the opposition - signs that Western nations are inching closer to having troops on Libyan soil.​

 

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Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, leader of the Libyan rebels' transitional government gestures as he holds a joint press conference with Italy's foreign minister Franco Frattini, , in Rome Tuesday, April 19, 2011, during what was billed as the Libyan's first foreign trip. Abdul-Jalil is meeting with Italy's top officials and a group of Italian business people with interests in Libya. Frattini repeated Italy's position that he is against the supply of heavy weapons to the rebels but that the coalition could furnish material to block telecommunications amd radars. He said Italy remains opposed to sending ground troops.​

 

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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini (R) shakes hands with Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of Libya's rebel Provisional Transitional National Council, after a meeting in Rome April 19, 2011. A meeting of Western and Middle Eastern states in Rome next month will seek ways of enabling oil from Libyan rebel areas to be sold on world markets, Frattini said on Tuesday.​

 

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A man cries in a graveyard during the funeral of Nasser Ali Afglio, a young Libyan rebel killed during battle with government troops loyal to Libyan ruler Moammar Gaddafi April 19, 2011 in Misrata, Libya. The graveyard where Nasser was buried has hundreds of simple concrete graves; many dozens are those that have been killed during the last two months of fighting in the besieged town. Thousands of civilians are trapped in Misrata as fighting continues between Libyan government forces that have surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there.​

 

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Libyan doctor Jebril Howaidi checks the eye of Mohammed al-Atrash, 8, after a CT Scan at a hospital in the rebel-held city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, on April 19, 2011. The child was evacuated from Misrata, along with other injured civilians and rebels as the International Organisation for Migration said that it plans to carry out a third round of sea evacuations from the besieged Libyan city, after Britain agreed to fund further rescue missions.​

 

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Workmen examine a multiple rocket launcher from an aircraft, of a type rebels have been using mounted on pickup trucks, at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

Workmen clean a rusted Grad rocket launcher to make it operational, at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Libya's rebels are hard at work training new recruits and making operational the mostly decades-old captured heavy weapons that Moammar Gadhafi forces left behind but are struggling to overpower the better trained and equipped force they are facing in the eastern desert.​

 

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Young workmen fix the tripod legs of a mortar, at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya Tuesday, April 19, 2011.

Workmen install a firing control mechanism made from household light switches on a Grad rocket launcher, at a Libyan rebel weapons workshop and training camp in Benghazi, Libya Tuesday, April 19, 2011.​

 

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Libyan rebels carry the coffin of a comrade, whom they said was killed by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi in Brega, during a funeral in Benghazi, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. Libyan rebels put the death toll in two months of fighting Moamer Kadhafi's forces at 10,000, while Britain has promised to send military advisers to help rebels organise themselves.​

 

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Getty Images photographer Chris Hondros , who was on assignment in Misrata, Libya, was killed on April 20, 2011 by a rocket-propelled grenade.​

 

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A portrait of photojournalist Chris Hondros is displayed on a large screen in the foyer of the Getty Images London office on April 21, 2011 in London, England. Chris Hondros was gravely injured on April 20, 2011 when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck a house he was in whilst covering the violence in Misrata, Libya.​

 

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Colleagues react as the bodies of photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros are loaded into a refrigerated truck for repatriation by an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) ferry at the port in Misrata early on April 21, 2011. NATO warned civilians to stand clear of its bombing blitz on Moamer Kadhafi's troops, as Libyan rebels called for 'major' air strikes and two top photographers were killed in besieged Misrata.

Senior Vice President, Editorial Imagery, Adrian Murrell addresses staff at the Getty Images London office prior to a minutes silence held in remembrance of colleague, photojournalist Chris Hondros, on April 21, 2011 in London, England.​

 

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A van crosses the Tunisian-Lybian border of Dhuheiba, Tunisia, Thursday, April 21, 2011. Libyan rebels said Thursday they had control of a post on the Tunisian border, forcing government soldiers to flee over the frontier and possibly opening a new channel for opposition forces in Moammar Gadhafi's bastion in western Lib​

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Filmmaker Tim Hetherington who made the documentary 'Restropo' arrives at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in Hollywood, California in this January 14, 2011 file photo. Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on April 20, 2011, doctors said. He was among a group caught by mortar fire on Tripoli Street, the main thoroughfare leading into the centre of Misrata, the only major rebel-held town in western Libya and besieged by Muammar Gaddafi's forces for more than seven weeks.​

 

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Photographer and filmmaker Tim Hetherington works at a rally in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya, March 25, 2011. Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on Wednesday, doctors said. Picture taken March 25, 2011.​

 

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A vehicle carrying the bodies of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tim Hetherington and Getty photographer Chris Hondros is driven out of Greek ferry "Ionian Spirit" at the port of Benghazi April 21, 2011. The two photojournalists were killed on Wednesday after coming under fire in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata. The "Ionian Spirit" was also transporting evacuees fleeing Misrata.​