Libya Live Blog - April 21 By Al Jazeera Staff in Africa on April 21st, 2011.

Libya Live Blog - April 21

By Al Jazeera Staff in

Africa

on April 21st, 2011.

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As the uprising in Libya continues, we update you with the latest developments from our correspondents, news agencies and citizens across the globe.

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(All times are local in Libya GMT+2)

• 7:57am

  So far NATO efforts have been confined to airstrikes under the banner of a UN resolution - but now France, the UK, and Italy have also committed to sending small teams of military liaison officers.

  Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports
• 7:04am

  One of the last photographs filed by Chris Hondros, Getty photographer, one of the two western journalists killed in Misurata on Wednesday - Libyan rebel fighters carry out a comrade wounded during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from a building (background) during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misurata on April 20,2011.

  

  
  
• 6:46am

  Hillary Clinton, US secretary of  state, said on Wednesday that the United States would not be sending military advisers to aid Libya's rebels despite decisions by France, Britain and Italy to do so.
  
  "There is a desire to help them be more organized and we support that. We're not participating in it, but we support it," she said in a conversation moderated by Charlie Rose at the State Department and aired on PBS.
  
  The White House had earlier said that US President Barack Obama backed the three countries' decisions to dispatch advisers, saying it would help the opposition battling Gaddafi forces, according to the AFP news agency.
  
  "But it does not at all change the president's policy of no boots on the ground for American troops," spokesman Jay Carney said.
• 6:19am

  Emma Daly, Human Rights Watch spokeswoman, said that the bodies of Hondros and Hetherington, the two foreign photojournalists killed in Misurata on Wednesday, were to be shipped out on the Ionian Spirit, a passenger ferry, that had just delivered food and medical supplies to Misurata.
• 6:11am

  Refugees from Libya continued to seek shelter at the Shousha camp on the Libya-Tunisia border on Wednesday, after fleeing the fighting between rebels and government forces.
  
  The camp, which has a capacity of 20,000 people, is run by the Tunisian army and international aid groups.
  
  It has become a place of shelter for thousands of stranded Libyans, where they can find food and medical support.
• 2:29am

  
  

  Seven civilians were killed and 18 wounded in a NATO air raid that targeted the southwestern Tripoli suburb of Khellat Al-Ferjan late Wednesday, official Jana news agency reported.

  An earlier report by the state Allibiya television said the Khellat Al-Ferjan area where three explosions could be heard was the "target of barbarian crusaders' raids that left martyrs and wounded among the residents and destroyed their homes".

  NATO warplanes carried out air raids earlier Wednesday at Bir Al-Ghanam, about 50km southwest of the Libyan capital, that left four people dead among the civilian population, according to Jana.

  France and Italy joined Britain on Wednesday in sending military advisers to insurgent-held eastern Libya, as Tripoli warned that a foreign troop deployment would only prolong the conflict.

  
  
• 1:55am

  Getty photographer Chris Hondros was killed on Wednesday after coming under fire in the besieged Libyan town of Misurata.

  Hondros and Oscar-nominated filmmaker and photographer Tim Hetherington, who was also killed, were among a group who came under fire on Tripoli Street, a main thoroughfare and scene of fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi.

  Doctors at a hospital in Misurata had said Hetherington had died while Hondros was in critical condition. Getty Images later released a statement saying Hondros had died of his injuries. Spanish photographer Guillermo Cervera said the group had been trying to leave Tripoli street when they came under fire.

  

  Hondros covered major conflicts including Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, Iraq and Liberia, according to his website. He received multiple awards including the 2005 Robert Capa gold medal. His work in Liberia earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination