[SatNews] Where to begin, a hospital with severe damage, terrified people fleeing.

A TSF team is transporting telecom satellite equipment to Sirte, 450km east from Tripoli. TSF experts will support refugees in the outskirts of the town and relief organisms. The team gets ready for entering Sirte, which access is still limited, to establish its 6th emergency telecom centre in Libya, after Benghazi, Misrata, Nalut, Jadu and Yefren. After a month-long siege, the troops from the National Transitional Council (NTC) have made the assault last week. Since then, fighting is raging in Sirte’s streets and the humanitarian situation becomes critical.

  More than 12,000 people have fled the town and regrouped on the outskirts of Sirte. But several families are still living inside the city where living conditions are worsening, with no electricity and drinking water, and food is running out. Telecommunication networks have also been destroyed.

The situation is dramatic. The Ibn Sina Hospital’s upper floors were blasted. Most of the medical equipment has been damaged and hundreds of patients in desperate need of evacuation jam in the corridors and the basements. TSF will offer telecom support to relief teams and international NGOs on site.

Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, head of the NTC, said the battle had entered its last phase and has been waiting for Sirte’s full capture to declare the liberation of the whole of Libya, excepted Bani Walid, 170km south from Tripoli, where fighting continues.