The colonel's snipers and artillery are fiercely defending the town, as casualties mount on both sides.
Reporter: An estimated 108 11 snipers are currently in position, surrounding the 12 demolished fox residence.
From their nine-metre-high turrets on the surrounding walls, Israeli snipers chase off the protesters with gunfire.
The residents described intense shelling around the post office, and especially in the north of the city. Residents were shot at checkpoints and by snipers, they said.
Our exceptionally courageous people, their bare chests exposed to snipers' bullets, understand the meaning of this freedom; it has already cost them dearly, in the lives of their sons and daughters.
Residents were shot at checkpoints and by snipers, they said.
Armed police are everywhere and there are snipers on the roof.
The snipers are on all the roofs. I'm now on my stomach, on the ground - I am really in a panicked situation. The city is quite in danger.
It would be, like, Yeah, so today I detonated a bunker filled with snipers, and then I texted my boyfriend, and I agreed that we should only use cerulean for an accent wall.
They say that Japanese, snipers are an annoyance, little more.
They said snipers were shooting on sight anyone on the streets or residents who venture out on their homes' balconies.
The protest might have petered out had not snipers in plain clothes, assumed to be security men loyal to Mr Saleh, fired into crowds in the capital on March 18th, killing some 50 people.
"The passage about snipers 'beginning to be obliged to study' badminton is the personal opinion of the journalist, " it said.
Featuring a spring piston firing mechanism, the sniper rifle is almost silent when fired which gives a vital advantage to snipers who don't want to give away their position.
"The SWAT team was able to blow out the window from the outside, so that the snipers could see what was going on inside," Jahn says.
For war correspondents, it is common to avoid bullets from snipers.
The rooftops where women once hung their washing to dry are now the dens of snipers that support Gaddafi's ground troops.
