TRIPOLI, Libya - forces officer Libyan Muammar Gaddafi intensified their campaign to take the strategic heights in a Western mountains and targeted a road that many people have used to flee the fighting in Libya, forcing the temporary closure of a border post in Tunisia.
On the main square in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, several hundred residents celebrated what they said was almost at the end of the insurgency by rebels early Thursday, spraying with shots sky and hit the fireworks and waving green flags - the iconic color of the Gaddafi regime.
They claimed that residents of Benghazi took the rebels held demonstrations of pro-Gaddafi, although no there was no evidence of all these events.
Much of the fighting in the Western Cordillera centered around the town of Yafrin and residents and rebel fighters said Wednesday that Gaddafi forces used Grad missiles and rockets in their seats months. Residents, trapped in their homes, have been cut off from food and medical supplies, they said.
In Zintan nearby, however, rebels repel an advance by forces of Kadhafi, killing eight and taking one prisoner, an activist said local.
West of the chain of contested Nafusa mountains, home to ethnic Berbers, Libyan bombing forced end closure Tuesday of the passage of the so-called Wazen, which is a way of people fleeing the Libya were used to obtain in nearby Tunisia. Jaber Naluti, a volunteer who tried to help people in the region, said seven rebels were killed.
Reports from the region, said that some of the shells fell inside the Tunisia.
Tunisian combat aircraft overflew the area, but did not fire, the witnesses said. They said that the crossing was reopened Wednesday.
Although Gaddafi control of most of the West, rebel forces have linked with the minority Berbers to keep its forces from the highest points of the Nafusa mountains, denying them a military advantage.
Kadhafi, who ruled the Libya more than 40 years, has used its military and the militias to try to end an uprising that began in February in an attempt to remove him from power.
Rebel forces took control of much of the eastern Libya, operating from Headquarters in the coastal city of Benghazi. They have also been fighting to keep the city of Misrata, only major stronghold of the opposition in the West of the Libya.
BelJassem, a turned-Hunter citizen of a Berber village near Yafrin, which is 75 120 km southwest of Tripoli, said Kadhafi forces were bombing the city several times.
"Dig us trenches and hide there during the night," said BelJassem, who gave his first name for fear of reprisals.
In Zintan, 20 miles (32 kilometres) to the East, rebels set an ambush for Gaddafi forces who seek to enter the town in the local activist Hamed Enbayah said. Rebel fighters killed eight soldiers and captured a.
Later, Enbayah said that having seen large explosions he assumed were air strikes of NATO on an ammunition depot South of the city. It was not clear if the Government forces in the area were also targeted.
On the front of the East, rebels engaged in a shooting of long hours with Gaddafi Loyalists, said Dr. Suleiman Refadi, who works at the hospital in Ajdabiya.
He told Associated Press that the rebels killed 14 fighters from Gaddafi and captured 30 near the oil city of Brega, which is about 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Ajdabiya. Refadi said that he treated five rebels wounded.
Refadi said that the rebels were assisted by the air strikes of NATO, which destroyed eight vehicles carrying heavy artillery pieces.
No there was no way to confirm the report independently because journalists are not allowed beyond a checkpoint on the outskirts of Ajdabiya.
Despite what appeared to be a dead end in the fighting, hundreds of residents in Tripoli - especially adolescents, young people and the security - beeped their vehicles, suspended their cars with crowds and stirred the Libyan flags green and same team al Ahly Tripoli football Federation.
They have been punctuated by young men throwing Fireworks and the night sky of spraying with round after round of assault rifle fire in a large square of Tripoli.
They said that they were celebrating because residents of Benghazi held rebel held pro-Gaddafi events.
No there was no evidence of events, but news of them have been constantly flashed up on Libyan television. The events may have been called to try to reassure the Libyan residents that the regime was still standing strong.
"We celebrate our citizens unit, in the East and West," said the Raid Mansour, 35, carrying his young daughter on his shoulders. "Now, we believe all the same: we want freedom and for Muammar al-Gaddafi to be victorious,"Mansour said."".
Later on Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Libya, Khaled Kaim, denied rumors of Gaddafi woman and her daughter fled to Tripoli. "They are in Tripoli, they are safe," said. He also denied that Minister Shukri Ghanem oil deserted, saying: he was in Vienna in business.
Also Wednesday, an official of the United Nations appealed global assistance for some 2 million people displaced by the fighting.
The humanitarian coordinator of the United Nations for the Libya said that some 1.6 million people in the countries of North Africa need help because fighting has disrupted basic services and depleted food stocks and stocks of doctors.
Coordinator Panos Moumtzis, who is based in Geneva, an additional 500,000 who crossed borders in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere in the region also need humanitarian help.
Moumtzis said that he asked international donors for $ 408 million to finance aid for the Libya in September.
During this time, the international criminal court responsible for Libyan informed prosecutors that they will be prosecuted if they try to conceal the crimes committed by forces loyal to Qadhafi.
Prosecutors issued the warning in a letter to the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelati al-Obeidi.
The letter also officially informed of Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of application for warrants of judgment of Gaddafi, son Seif el-Islam Kadhafi and his intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi. The judges will now have to decide if the arrest of issued warrants.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo Monday accused the Monday three of murder and persecution would have ordered, planning and participate in the attacks against civilians.
The letter also noted that the Court has jurisdiction in Libya, because his investigation was ordered by the United Nations Security Council - a claim the Libyan Government has rejected.
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