Al-Hayat

An air strike targeted the main road leading to the opposition-controlled city of Ras Lanuf Monday, the latest incident of air and ground attack by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to crush the uprising.

Earlier, an air strike hit about five miles south of Ras Lanuf.

The planes flew over the area, and the opposition fired anti-aircraft guns in their direction. Some families fled the eastern city of Libya’s oil out of the situation.

Qaddafi’s forces seemed to be advancing in the town of Ben Jawad, where the Libyan army seems to have the control on Monday. The city was hotly contested during the weekend, with at least five people were killed, medics said.

Protesters against the government is seeking the removal of all life, Muammar Gaddafi, after almost 42 years in power in the country – the kind of revolution was in neighboring Tunisia and Egypt. But unlike these countries, the uprising became a war.

CNN’s Ben Wedeman on the outskirts of Ras Lanuf, heard someone say, “Let’s capture (Gaddafi), put it in the top of this car and all Libya Libya Each will get a shot ..”

In the absence of a clear end in sight deadly clashes, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed a new envoy to Libya to discuss the crisis with officials in Tripoli, the United Nations, said in a statement Monday.

Abdelilah Al Khatib, a former foreign minister of Jordan, was appointed to consult urgently with the authorities in Tripoli and the region on the immediate humanitarian situation and the wider dimensions of the crisis, “according the UN declaration.

“The Secretary General is deeply concerned by the fighting in western Libya, which claimed many lives and threatens further bloodshed in the coming days,” the statement said. “He noted that civilians are the first victims of violence and calling for an immediate halt to the disproportionate use of government force and indiscriminate attacks against civilian targets. ”

Sunday, opposition forces claimed a major victory, President Qaddafi to prevent invading forces and to maintain control of the city of key measures, an eyewitness said.

Using machine guns, sticks and whatever they could find, the crowds were able to repel the armed militias Gaddafi with tanks and heavy artillery, witnesses said.

“The will and determination and dedication that people have shown here on the spot, it just makes no words,” he said.

A doctor at the central hospital Misrata said 42 people were killed – 17 of 25 by the opposition forces and pro-Qaddafi – and that 85 people were wounded in the fighting, which spilled into the periphery of the city. The youngest victim, a 3-year-old was killed by a direct hit, the doctor said.

The witnesses and other sources has not been appointed its own security.

Humanitarian aid and medical Misurata, Libya’s central, has been locked, the coordinator of UN emergency relief, Valerie Amos said in a statement Sunday. He urged the authorities “to provide immediate access for aid workers to help save lives.”

According to reports on opposition forces successfully fighting off a pro-Gaddafi in Libyan state television showed Misrata a chart – in Arabic and English – said that “strict orders were given to the armed forces not to enter Cities that terrorist gangs that have made civilians as human shields and threatened to massacre the inhabitants of these cities. “The report refers to” military sources. ”

Conflicting reports emerged over the weekend about what controlled the cities.

A crowd of supporters filled Gaddafi in Tripoli Green Square on Sunday, with some insisting that they were celebrating the victory of the government in Misrata. A government official said Gaddafi’s regime has been victorious in Ras Lanuf Zawiya and well – if rebel fighters appeared on the control of Ras Lanuf and said he had prevented the pro-government forces to take Zawiya.

Libyan state TV also said that the government had taken control of the eastern port city of Tobruk. But witnesses said the city of Tobruk was still under the control of the opposition.

Total unrest that began Feb. 15 in Tripoli saw described the government uses all possible means to fight the crowds, including the power to attract people to them, while anti-Gaddafi demonstrators Street .

Secretary General, Ban held talks with Libyan Foreign Minister Musa Kasa on Sunday, calling for an end of hostilities. Ban discussed the situation of migrant workers and called for unhindered humanitarian access and proposed the immediate dispatch of a humanitarian assessment team to Tripoli, which has agreed to Kasa, according to a statement from the United Nations .

The death toll estimates ranged from over 1,000 to a maximum of 2,000, and the international community has reflected on how the strategies to stop violence and to remove the regime of Gaddafi.

On Sunday, the British foreign secretary William Hague said: “We continue to push for Qadhafi to retire, and we will work with the international community to support the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people.”

Benjamin Barber, a researcher at New York-based Demos think tank, who had worked closely with the Gaddafi Foundation, told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that he thought Gaddafi’s son Saif and their supporters would be likely to “fight to the death “- which means the relatively rapid compared to the prolonged war and a peaceful political transition took place in Egypt and Tunisia.

Although Gaddafi is somehow displaced, Barber predicted violence would continue to come to do battle for supremacy in a country which has few large public organizations could fill a potentially chaotic.

Over the weekend, the opposition-controlled radio announced that the authority of the country is the sole legitimate representative of the National Transitional Council, a group of 31 representatives of most regions in Libya. Former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdeljeleel, said the council has tried to quit the government on several occasions Gaddafi, was announced as the new leader of the council.

The Council has also been designated representative of the military affairs and has established a Military Council to monitor the “liberation” of Libya and to rebuild the armed forces according to the radio ad. The Council concluded its main tasks are to represent all of Libya’s international release of the constitution and elections.

Gaddafi’s government has been criticized worldwide for violence against civilians and the International Criminal Court has undertaken a review of Gaddafi’s son and some other officials for crimes against humanity.

The intense fighting has caused the flight of the Libyans and foreigners in Libya, with nations around the world struggling to help people out.

About 200,000 people have fled to Libya almost as much as go to Tunisia and Egypt, the UN refugee agency office said.

But not everyone was able to get out. Monday, several hundred Malian expatriates gathered at the Mali Embassy in Tripoli, asking for help to leave Libya. Many were migrant workers who said they do not work if the situation in Tripoli seemed to be calmer in recent days.

Some migrant workers have tried to go in Algeria – which shares a border of Mali – but refused to Algerian authorities.

Meanwhile, Agostino Miozzo, a representative of the European Union on a fact-finding mission to Libya, said in a press conference in Tripoli on Monday that his mission was to ensure that all citizens of EU member countries can be evacuated.