Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - France and the Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to advise the rebels to fight for the overthrow of the regime of leader Libyan Muammar Gaddafi.
Following a similar announcement by the British Government Tuesday, French Government spokesman Francois Baroin said that a "small number" of French troops sent to advise the National Council of transition from the rebels.
G?rard Longuet French Defence Minister exclude still send ground troops to fight alongside the rebels. "It's a real question that deserves an international debate", he said, adding, "We are working for the resolution of 1973," a reference to the United Nations resolution authorizing the action in Libya. "You cannot please everyone all the time," he said.
Italy will send military advisers to train rebels in self-defense tactics, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Maurizio Massari announced.
Britain said Tuesday that he sent a contingent of officers experienced in an advisory role to the stronghold of rebels in Benghazi. The team will work with the National Council of transition on how the opposition can improve military organisational structures, communications and logistics, said the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will also help the delivery of critical assistance.
"This deployment is fully under resolution 1973 both preparedness and its provision expressly excluding a force of foreign occupation on Libyan soil," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.
Efforts to strengthen the rebellion come as main opposition organization the Libya pleaded for international military intervention.
Libyans are "being killed each day by the forces of Gaddafi," rebel spokesman Shamsiddin Abdulmolah said Tuesday CNN.
The High Commissioner of the United Nations in the human rights said Wednesday that some of the attacks of the Libyan Government on the siege of Misrata city may constitute international crimes.
A statement by the Office of Navi Pillay said it condemned "the reported repeated use of cluster munitions and weapons of heavy weapons by the forces of the Libyan Government in their attempt to regain control of the city under siege from Misrata and said that such attacks on densely populated areas of civilian casualties urbainesentra?nant substantial"could be regarded as international crimes. ?
"Pro-Government forces besieging the city, including their commanders and all other members of staff, must be aware that - with the international criminal court investigating possible crimes - their orders and their actions will be subject to scrutiny""," Pillay said in the statement. "International law, targeting deliberate medical facilities is a war crime, and targeting deliberate or reckless endangering civilians may also constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law or human rights international law".
UNICEF, the children, United Nations agency said Wednesday that 20 children were killed and "countless others wounded" in single Misrata.
Among the rebels, requests for assistance have increased every day.
Aid agencies are afraid to go to such areas as Misrata, that is targeted by Gaddafi troops daily, militant opposition that Mohamed Ibrahim said. "Some of them, they come." But most of them, they come close... they hear the bombing and everything, and they go back, "he says.
At least 27 people were killed and 142 were injured this week, according to a spokesman of the opposition who wanted to be identified only as "Mohammed" for security reasons.
Aid groups were trying to pull the desperate people of Misrata, which is hampered by the forces of Gaddafi on three sides.
The only way to escape is by port of the city - a witnesses in the region, said also was bombed by the forces of Gaddafi.
For those who have left behind, witnesses said, the disastrous situation continues to deteriorate. The city is still without water, electricity and telecommunications, Mohammed said Tuesday. "Bombing has moved out of the industrial areas to residential areas, and it is still in progress."
Rebel spokesman Abdulmolah said that the National Council of transition the opposition does not oppose a humanitarian mission on the ground.
"Something must be done so that we can stop the bloodshed of our people," he said.
But "we don't want any military presence foreign or any veterans international with our rebels," he added.
NATO is leading an international military operation which includes targeting military resources of Gaddafi with airstrikes.
NATO said that the operation has destroyed seven bunkers of munitions in the area of Tripoli and equipment in other parts of the country this week.
NATO attacked three regime battle tanks and an artillery piece mounted on vehicle in and around Misrata Tuesday, spokesman for the British Army major-General John Lorimer said Wednesday.
Abdulmolah said the NATO strikes may also prevent more destruction in eastern Libya, particularly near Benghazi.
"We have received reports that Gaddafi forces were mobilizing their troops and their systems of missile mobile/rockets of Brega to Ajdabiya bomb Benghazi." They were the strikes of NATO stopped by (Tuesday), "he says.
But he said that the opposition wants weapons and "technical assistance", "because we are faced with a ruthless tyrant who wants to kill his own people, simply because they asked for freedom and liberty." CNN Saad Abedine, Andreena Narayan, Reza Sayah, Yousuf Basil and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.
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