On 16 August, a NATO spokesman said that rebels held the city center, but there were "reports of fighting also in the suburbs".[30] Al Jazeera stated that the city center in Zawiya had been captured the day before.[31] Loyalists were also still holding the refinery.[32] Doctors who had escaped a hospital in eastern Zawiya held by Gaddafi's forces said their hospital was being used for military purposes, with snipers positioned on the roof and anti-aircraft artillery set up just outside the entrance.