Dehiba, Tunisia - the civil war of the Libya in the South of the Tunisia Friday as scores of troops loyal to the bursting of the colonel Muammar Qathafi across the border and in a town nearby. The incursion came after the failure of the loyalists to return to a remote border post, which has become a rebel lifeline.
Two Libyan Government rockets landed in the Tunisian city of Dehiba and angry residents attack one of the Libyan military vehicles with stones, causing it and its anti-aircraft gun to overturn, killing the driver.
The presence of the armed forces blasting their guns in a neighbouring country would have been an international incident nowhere elsewhere. But the ebb and flow of this conflict - and the porous desert border between the Libya and the Tunisia - means that the Tunisian authorities could do little to stop the incursion. The military Tunisia and the border police is removed entirely from their border posts during the heaviest fighting late Thursday.
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Rebel flag was raised again to that position on Friday morning, the final result of an attack by the forces of Colonel Gaddafi three-pronged began Thursday afternoon. The battle was initially loyalist victory - and a farm of their green flag for the first time since the rebels took control here a week ago.
Battle at the border.
But a fierce battle that stretched into the night saw loyalist troops surround and finally forced to flee, with 162 entering Tunisia with 18 vehicles.
The Tunisian army disarmed the Libyans, but then escorted back to a point of illegal crossing frequented by smugglers. The Loyalists surrendered their weapons and should resume their fight.
"Dehiba is very important for the [anti-Qathafi] revolutionaries for resupply - they are battling for the corner," said Samir Abdelmounem, a Tunisian doctor who treated the injured rebels and loyalists Qathafi both Dehiba hospital.
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"And this population feels great solidarity with [the rebels], as they are family," explains Dr. Abdelmounem. The Tunisians "hate Qathafi soldiers, they have a horror of them".
Tunisian soldiers have been posted from the hospital, he said, because "people wanted to come here and finish their".
Two Dehiba homes, a few kilometres from the border, were hit by Libyan rockets. Stray bullets struck a Libyan refugee boy in the foot and injured a Tunisian man.
Surprise attack
Rebels said that they were surprised at the attack by the forces of Qathafi and said that they had hired local guides in the difficult mountainous desert and provide details of force rebel and location.
"Even the Nalutis [local sections of the nearest Libyan town of Nalut]" were surprised: how come this way? ", says a rebel named Wajdi who works on the Tunisian side of the border."
"The rebels learned something this.". We will never leave this low area once again, "said Wajdi." Or they will depend on NATO aid: Wajdi has been in direct contact with NATO during the fighting, providing details in real time of possible targets.
"I was talking to their live... and nothing," said Wajdi. "" "". "Unfortunately provide us the information, but we continue long wait for a response."
As he spoke, a column of black smoke rose from the Libyan side of the border, where rebels burn clothing and personal effects of LOYALISTS fleeing Qathafi. A Loyalist dead had his toes tied together, apparently to prevent him to flee before his death.
For the months of two and a half years, rebel in remote mountains of Western the Libya, which are dominated by ethnic Berbers that have always challenged rule Qathafi, took up arms to join the anti-Government revolution.
Crucial passage for the rebels
This crossing has played an important role. Capture of rebels it a week ago has been a blow to Tripoli and stimulate their supply of long-hampered, leading to a boost in the fight against the rebels.
Members of the Tunisian National Guard thought some Qathafi Loyalists who crossed Friday were intended to tackle a Libyan refugee on the edge of the Dehiba camp.
Failed, but there was drama at Dehiba hospital, where wounded soldiers Qathafi 12 have been taken, with three rebel wounded. Doctors were struck by the fact the loyalist troops seemed so young, and that two have been traumatized while they tried to flee to the arrival and had to be captured by the Tunisian soldiers.
Hospital staff immediately separated the rebels and loyalists in two different wings of the building. Abdelmounem has explained: "it is therefore that we have not any more problems we already have".
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