Misrata: Life inside Libya's besieged city - in pictures

A group of young people demonstrate calling for further western intervention in Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A young girl takes part in a children's demonstration Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A rebel fighter stands on the burned out carcass of a tank at an army base captured in the Kerzaz district of Misrata Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images

Ziad, whose brother Nasser Ali Afglio died fighting pro-Gaddafi forces, is consoled by a friend during the funeral for the young Libyan rebel Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

A man cries in a graveyard during the funeral of rebel fighter Nasser Ali Afglio Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Libyan orphans sit in a room of a makeshift orphanage in a disused school in Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Young boys looks through a window at a few loafs of bread as they queue at a bakery Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

The boot of a car is filled with the bread rations for five families in Misrata. The city is running low on commodities and people face queuing hours for food and other essentials Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A rebel wearing a pilot's helmet fires a heavy machine gun mounted on a pick-up truck during heavy clashes with pro-Gaddafi fighters in Tripoli Street, central Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

A rocket-propelled grenade rips into a building occupied by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi in central Misrata Photograph: Phil Moore/AFP/Getty Images

Doctors treat a baby injured by shrapnel that blasted through the window of his home Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Tripoli Street in central Misrata Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images

Two rebel fighters peak out a window in a trashed house Photograph: Odd Andersen/AFP/Getty Images