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2024-04-11 (Y-m-d) Shipwreck in the Sar area of Malta, nine victims. The bodies and survivors were transferred to Lampedusa.Sar area of Malta There are 23 survivors of the shipwreck who arrived in Lampedusa with the Coast Guard. However, 15 people are missing, including three minors. News sources |
2024-02-04 (Y-m-d) Dead and missing in the shipwreck of a boat bound for Sardinia, which sank off the coast of AlgeriaSea of Algeria Four people died and six are believed missing in the shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Skikda province in north-eastern Algeria. The boat was headed towards Sardinia. This was reported by local Algerian media, including the news website Ennahar Online. News sources |
2024-02-04 (Y-m-d) A boy from Guinea committed suicide, locked in a CPR for 8 months, first in Trapani and for about ten days in Rome.Cpr of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy) Locked up for eight months, first in Trapani, then in Rome, in overcrowded facilities, Ousmane Sylla could not resist. In prison without having committed any crime. Administrative detention, they call it, with a view to repatriation for irregulars like him. The 22-year-old boy, with the new Cutro decree, would have had to remain locked in a CPR for another ten months. He had asked for help, now desperate, he hanged himself from the bars of his cell. News sources |
2023-12-16 (Y-m-d) At least 61 migrants missing in a shipwreck off the coast of LibyaOff the coast of Libya 61 migrants are missing, probably dead, after the sinking of a dinghy carrying 86 people on board. The shipwreck occurred off the coast of Libya, the boat had left Zuara.
The news comes from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on X. News sources |
2023-09-25 (Y-m-d) “The memory of objects”, the photographic exhibition that commemorates the first Lampedusa massacreMilan A terrible massacre in the Mediterranean: the testimony and memory of the Lampedusa shipwreck of 3 October 2013, in which 368 people of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin lost their lives, is the theme of an exhibition of photographs and objects at the Shoah Memorial in Milan, from 26 September to 31 October. A project curated by "Zona" and "Carta di Roma", by Paola Barretta, Imma Carpiniello, Valerio Cataldi, Adal Neguse and Giulia Tornari with photographs by Karim El Maktafi, “The memory of objects” recounts the terrible massacre that took place offshore of Lampedusa through testimonies and objects of the victims, to give dignity and value to life and build a shared memory on the topic of migration. News sources |
2023-08-22 (Y-m-d) Eighteen charred bodies, possibly of migrants, were found in the forest of Dadia (Greece).Greece Eighteen charred bodies of migrants, according to the Greek press, were found in the forest of Dadia, in north-eastern Greece, in the Thrace region near the border with Turkey: in this area, the flames of a fire had spread yesterday broke out four days ago near the port city of Alexandroupolis. News sources |
2023-08-11 (Y-m-d) At least 6 dead from the sinking of a boat of migrants that capsizes in the English Channel.waters off Sangatte (English Channel) At least 6 dead in the sinking of a migrant boat that capsizes in the English Channel.It's the death toll from last night's shipwreck of a boat full of migrants has risen to six spilled into the English Channel. The search for the passengers believed to be missing continues (from 5 to 10), while so far 55 people have been rescued. News sources |
2023-08-06 (Y-m-d) Eleven dead and over 40 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia [updated 09/08/2023] Forty-one migrants died when their boat sankSfax (off the Tunisian coast) Eleven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died while another 44 are missing, after the terrible shipwreck that took place at the end of the week off the Tunisian coast in front of Sfax. The news was released by the Tunis authorities.
[updated 09/08/2023] Forty-one migrants died in the sinking of their boat, which set sail from Sfax in Tunisia: the boat capsized and sank while sailing in the Sicilian channel. This latest tragedy was told by the four survivors, three men and a woman, who were rescued by the motor vessel Rimona which transferred them to the Coast Guard patrol boat CP327.
The 4 castaways, originally from the Ivory Coast and Guinea Konakry, were then landed in Lampedusa. News sources |
2023-07 (Y-m) The bodies of 901 migrants who drowned between January 1 and July 20, 2023 have been found.Tunisia Between January and July 2023, the bodies of 901 drowned migrants were recovered off the coast of Tunisia. 267 were foreign nationals while the others have not been identified. This is the best way to go. what Tunisian Interior Minister Kamel Feki said in Parliament. News sources |
2023-07-27 (Y-m-d) Migrants: a federal judge blocks the new regulation.United States United States. The American Civil Liberties Union's appeal accepted: the new law does not respect American law and violates the rights of asylum seekers. A federal judge has blocked the new rule for asylum seekers wanted by the Biden administration and which allows the authorities to take refuge in asylum seekers. to deny political asylum to migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border without having already obtained a certificate. applied online or have applied for asylum in a country they have passed through. News sources |
2023-07-27 (Y-m-d) Boat with over 60 migrants sunk 300 meters off the coast of Dakhla in Moroccocoast of Dakhla, Morocco, facing the Canaries A boat that was carrying over 60 migrants was killed. sunk 300 meters off the coast of Dakhla, Morocco, near the Canary Islands. This is the best way to go. as reported by the Assabah newspaper. The sea was rough and it's time to go. been fatal for many of the migrants at sea: about forty migrants died; managed to save himself while 20 others are missing. So far seven bodies have been recovered from the same survivors and brought ashore. The migrants are almost all originally from the province of Kenitra, a few kilometers from Rabat and were trying to reach Spain by boat. News sources |
2023-07-26 (Y-m-d) At least five dead in a shipwreck of a boat bound for the Canary IslandsMorocco At least five migrants died in a sinking of a boat bound for the Canary Islands from MoroccoThe tragic incident adds to a string of deaths among young women and men in the Khenifra region fleeing unemployment, destitution and oppression: the fact is according to the office of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in the province of Khenifra, it is said that the victims come from the suburb of Tighassaline and that the toll could worsen. News sources |
2023-07-13 (Y-m-d) A 4-year-old boy died among 50 rescued at sea.Off the coast of Sicily He had left with his mother on a makeshift boat en route to Lampedusa: the shipwreck was fatal. occurred off the coast of Sicily. The little one didn't make it, as could also have happened to other passengers of the shipwrecked boat, his lifeless body was left behind. He was collected and taken together with dozens of other migrants, including his mother, on the coast guard ship Dattilo which was transported to the coast. then arrived at the Port of Reggio Calabria with about 800 people on board, most of whom came from the hotspot of the Sicilian island. News sources |
2023-07-10 (Y-m-d) Boat that disappeared more than a week ago with 200 migrants on board identified off the Canary Islandsoff the Canary Islands The fishing boat had set sail from Kafountine, a town in the city of Kafountine. of Senegal. There are at least 200 people and many children on board.Spanish rescuers have identified a boat carrying at least 200 African migrants off the coast of the Canary Islands. of a week. So reports the BBC. The authorities – were engaged in the search for a missing boat after the alarm was given by the humanitarian association Walking Boarders. The boat would have left on June 27 from Kafountine, in Senegal, about 1,700 kilometers of navigation from Tenerife, the capital of the Canary Islands. News sources |
2023-07-09 (Y-m-d) One dead and 10 missing in a shipwreck off TunisiaWide of Tunisia According to Sfax, it was time to go. A shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Tunisia has occurred, during the crossing to Italy: in the shipwreck there would be at least one dead while 10 people would be missing, the coast guard would have rescued 11.
According to information given by Reuters, the boat had departed from the coast of Zarzis. News sources |
2023-06-23 (Y-m-d) Boat of 50 migrants adriftMediterranean, international waters Barge of 50 adrift migrants. Another 40 are missing between Sfax and Lampedusa (Alarm Phone)A boat with 50 migrants that left Libya was killed. adrift in the central Mediterranean in international waters. It's the alarm raised by Alarm Phone. "We just got called. They are desperate and are waiting for help. Water is entering the boat. The situation is criticism. We urge all authorities – authorities: don't let them drown!" the NGO's appeal on Twitter. News sources |
2023-06-21 (Y-m-d) Two migrants died in the shipwreck en route to the Canary IslandsRoute to the Canaries At least two migrants died in the shipwreck en route to the Canary Islands.At least two people, including a minor, have died following the sinking of a boat. This was announced by the Spanish maritime rescue service. Among the 60 passengers there would be 24 survivors of the accident, they were assisted by the authorities. Moroccan. More than 30 people are currently missing. --- Caminando Fronteras and Alarm Phone report 39 dead on a boat that overturned along the Canary route: "Rescue delayed". The second episode in Lampedusa: 44 saved, three missing [il manifesto] News sources |
2023 (Y) Universal mourning: a worldwide search and rescue program for migrants is needed immediatelyWORLD Universal mourning.A European search and rescue program is needed immediately. A public tool that prevents the massacres, patrolling the Mediterranean to track down boats in danger and make them safeNews sources |
2023-06-14 (Y-m-d) Fishing vessel carrying perhaps 750 people capsized in PylosSouthwest of Pylos, Greece Migrant boat wrecked off GreeceSo far, 78 have died in the tragic shipwreckAt least 104 people were rescued. The fishing boat that left Libya was transported. capsized 47 miles SW of Pylos. An unknown number of people on board.The fishing boat that took over overturned it was 30 meters long and had at least 400 people on board. Sailed from Tobruch, Libya you were bound for Italy. So far, 104 migrants have been rescued while the search for the missing is continuing. "According to the statements of the people who were on board, the number of passengers was 750: we fear that unfortunately the number of dead will rise as time goes on. by a lot", declared the governor of the Peloponnese region, Panagiotis Nikas, on the Kathimerini site, regarding the sinking of the fishing boat which occurred 47 nautical miles southwest of Pylos. [From ilfattoquotidiano.it ] [..] Even a plane from the European agency Frontex had sighted the fishing vessel around noon yesterday and "subsequently by two patrol boats, without requesting assistance", says the Greek Coast Guard: the "migrants then refused any assistance and declared that they wanted to continue their journey to Italy", claim the Greeks. But, in a press release, Alarm Phone denies this reconstruction, claiming that the Hellenic Coast Guard had "been alerted at 4.53 pm" so that it could not be found. as “the authorities – Greeks and the other Europeans." So, "they were well aware of this overcrowded and inadequate boat"; but – report the center that takes care of receiving emergency calls – “it’s not A ’rescue operation” has been launched, while “the Hellenic Coast Guard has begun to justify the failure to rescue by claiming that people in distress have been rescued. they didn't want to be rescued in Greece." They would have been so; lost – it is the reading of Alarm phone – crucial hours, until the shipwreck, with the rescue operations and the recovery of 104 people brought to safety in Kalamata by the Mayan Queen IV yacht, flying the Cayman flag. Alexiou explains that the rescuers continue "to operate off Pylos and will continue to do so even at night, with the assistance of the Italian Air Force C-130". The hopes of finding survivors, however, fade with each passing hour. News sources |
2023-06-04 (Y-m-d) Bordighera (promenade Argentina), Italy The body of a man was found on the beach. a migrantA man's body is made up of materials. was found in Bordighera, on the shore of the Argentina seafront. It is hypothesized that it could be a migrant. He was wearing a black jacket, jeans, sneakers. It is assumed that he drowned in Ventimiglia and his body was dragged by the currents. From the state of the corpse, the death could date back to a few previous days. It would be a foreigner, probably a migrant between 25 and 30 years old. News sources |
2023-05-24 (Y-m-d) The boat left from Cyrenaica and is located in the Maltese Sar area 500 PEOPLE ON BOARD A BOAT THAT IS ALREADY EMBARKING WATER: THE EMERGENCY LIFE SUPPORT SHIP'S RACE AGAINST TIME. [24/05/2023]Five hundred people aboard a vessel that is already on board. taking on water, with 45 women on board, including several pregnant, and 56 children, one born last night: this is the situation of the boat towards which the EMERGENCY Life Support is heading in these hours. Despite the gravity of the situation, no authority can take control of the situation. has so far responded to the request for relief coordination. “The vessel, which left Cyrenaica a few days ago, is in the Maltese Sar area[24/05/2023]. We will arrive around 10pm tonight – comments Albert Mayordomo, head of mission of Life Support –. We're cruising at top speed. since Alarm Phone reported the case yesterday. It is a real race against time, in an attempt to save the lives of more than one person. possible people." The vessel is in the Maltese search and rescue area. So as foreseen by the maritime conventions, EMERGENCY has been; addressed to the authorities of Malta to request relief coordination. Since yesterday Malta has not been responding to our written communications and the numbers of the authorities have been contacted. competent Maltese are non-functional and unreachable. EMERGENCY has also forwarded its request to the authorities – Italian: the National Maritime Rescue Coordination Center replied that the case is an emergency. under Maltese jurisdiction. Migrants: Emergency, “no news of the boat in danger with 500 people in the Maltese search and rescue area” [05/25/2023]There is no news of the boat in distress in the Maltese search and rescue area that the EMERGENCY Life Support vessel was going to rescue. The vessel, which had already contacted the NGO Alarm Phone; for two days, she has had 500 people on board, including at least 45 women, including pregnant women, and 56 children, one of whom was born during navigation. The details were communicated by the passengers of the boat to Alarm Phone via satellite phone. So as required by maritime conventions, EMERGENCY asked the authorities; competent authorities of Malta and Italy to coordinate the rescue, but the authorities they refused to share any information. [..] Alarm Phone, EMERGENCY, SOS Méditerranée and Humanity 1 have repeatedly contacted the local authorities. Italian and Maltese to ask for information on the fate of the missing boat. Fears that the 500 people may have been intercepted and forcibly returned to Libya began to grow. These fears were confirmed the next morning: the 500 people had not been rescued! Instead, they had been towed – for over 160 nautical miles, or more; 300 kilometers – to the Libyan port of Benghazi. An illegal refoulement, a real deportation, coordinated by RCC Malta. According to relatives, the 500 people were taken to a prison in Benghazi. News sources |
2023-05-18 (Y-m-d) centre de détention au Texas (USA) [RaiNews] Migrants, 8-year-old girl dies: she was in a custody center in Texas News sources |
2023-05-13 (Y-m-d) Florida (USA) 17-year-old Honduran migrant dies in Florida
You are the first migrant child to die while in government custody since the Biden administration took office. 17-year-old, unaccompanied, Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoza came from Honduras and was found unconscious on May 10 in a migrant center in Florida, and then pronounced dead in hospital. Yesterday the Biden administration announced that investigations are underway to clarify the causes of death, of which the news emerged on Friday when Title 42 lapsed in the US and thousands of migrants tried to cross the border. [The poster]
Ángel Eduardo was 17 years old and the causes of death are unknown. His mother: "He wanted to live the American dream, when he left here he was fine". A few days before his death he had heard the family on the phone [Rai News] News sources |
2023-04-30 (Y-m-d) Italian SAR area A four-year-old girl was killed during a migration journey across the Mediterranean to Italy. News sources |
2023-04-25 (Y-m-d) Offshore of Libya The International Organization for Migration: boat departed from the city of Garabouli with 60 people on board, including women and children.
At least 55 migrants drowned in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast yesterday. Five survivors have been recovered by the Libyan Coast Guard, reads a tweet from the UN agency. The boat would have departed from the city of Garabouli with 60 people on board, including women and children. News sources |
2023-03-30 (Y-m-d) Ciudad Juarez (detention center), Mexican state of Chihuahua (Mexico) 39 dead migrants burned on the border between Mexico and the US
In a detention center people, locked up, were intoxicated by the fumes of a fire. A border, symbol of the American dream, where caravans of Mexicans, Hondurans and Venezuelans try to reach the United States.
In Mexico, 39 migrants die in the locked Ciudad Juarez detention center, they were intoxicated by the fumes of a fire. In the penitentiary located on the outskirts of the northern city, a symbol of the American dream, where caravans of Mexicans, Hondurans and Venezuelans in search of a new life go up an immense continent, the fire is the tragic epilogue of a long journey. There are 8 people under investigation for intentional homicide, public police officers and members of private security agencies; a video shows that during the fire they do not open the gates to let the migrants out.
On the night of March 27, in addition to the 39 dead, 29 people were injured by the fire that broke out in the detention center of the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state of Chihuahua.
The wounded were transferred to four hospitals in the area in "even serious" conditions, according to local reports. The number of wounded is still uncertain, it is thought that in addition to Guatemala 13 people came from Honduras, Venezuela, 12 from El Salvador; one person from Ecuador and one from Colombia. The migrants had been arrested that same Monday by INM agents for alleged street disturbances and were held in several cells on the left side of the building that depends on the Mexican federal government. Around 21:30 the fire broke out, an event that highlighted the precarious security situation for the detainees. "They never opened the door for them," said Vinagly Infante, a Venezuelan migrant who was at the gates of the center where her husband was being held. News sources |
2023-02-26 (Y-m-d) Shipwreck of CutroCoasts of Calabria A boat, which according to some witnesses was carrying even 180 people arriving from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, could not handle the very rough sea and crashed against the rocks a few meters from the coast of Steccato di Cutro.As of April 16, the toll was 94 confirmed dead, in addition to an unknown number of missing. According to official reports, 34 victims are men, 26 are women and 34 are minors; of these, 21 are boys and 13 girls (31 under 14 and 3 over 14). As of March 24, 78 bodies had been transferred: 43 to Afghanistan, 11 to Germany, 14 to Bologna, 1 was buried in Crotone, 1 in Finland, 6 in Pakistan, 1 in Iran, 1 Tunisia. 11 bodies remained to be transferred, 7 of which were unidentified (4 adults and three children); among the four identified, two had not been claimed (one of which was a newborn baby), while the other two were in the process of being transferred to Palestine and Afghanistan. On April 16, six unidentified or unclaimed bodies were buried in Cutro, where the mayor had given the willingness to reserve space for a Muslim cemetery. News sources |
2023-02-14 (Y-m-d) Qasr Al-Akhyar, about 75 kilometers (46 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli 73 people drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya.This was reported by the spokesman of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Flavio Di Giacomo. There is also talk of 62 missing. What is known so far is that the boat carrying 80 people had departed from Qasr Al-Akhyar, about 75 kilometers (46 miles) east of the capital, Tripoli, and was heading towards Europe. According to what was reported by the IOM spokesman, 11 bodies were recovered by the Libyan Red Crescent and local police. The same United Nations migration agency also stated that the "seven survivors have returned to the Libyan coast in extremely serious conditions and are currently in hospital". --- [www.jagonews24.com] Boat overturned in the Mediterranean Sea, fear of the death of 73 migrantsCapsized boat in the Mediterranean Sea, fear of the death of 73 migrants Many migrants drown after a dinghy collapses. overturned in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. The authorities – they have so far recovered the bodies of 11 people. At least 73 migrants remain missing and are feared dead, the country said on Wednesday. the United Nations Migration Agency IOM. The boat was loaded with 80 migrants. The boat would have left for Europe from the village of Qasr al-Akhiyar, 80 kilometers from the Libyan capital Tripoli. IOM spokesman Safa Mcehli said one of the 11 bodies recovered was a woman. Is not serious; it is still known whether there are Bengalis among the dead. In a video shared online by officials in the village of Qasr al-Akhiya, Libyan Red Crescent officials were seen carrying bodies that had flown away. The footage also shows a wrecked dinghy floating. However, it’s not the case. clear what happened to the boat. The IOM said the boat's seven passengers managed to swim to the lake and were in critical condition. They were rushed to the hospital. In another video released by the authorities, you can hear a surviving migrant say that most of the boat's migrants were dead. The passengers on the boat each paid three to five thousand US dollars (three to five lakh taka) to the smugglers. According to the IOM, the Mediterranean route is the best choice for the Mediterranean. one of the most important migration routes; dangerous in the world. War-ravaged Libya is now in trouble. become a hub for migrants. Italy is only 290 km away by sea. As a result, Libya is now in the country. become one of the centers of immigrants from various countries including sub-Saharan African countries. Many immigrants from Bangladesh also choose this path. Tuesday’ last year, the rescue organization Ocean Viking rescued 84 migrants from another boat. SOS Mediterranean said that 58 of the rescued migrants were unaccompanied minors. Source: InfoMigrants News sources |
2022-12-31 (Y-m-d) Rio Grande, a river that divides Texas and Mexico In 2022, more than 800 migrants have died trying to cross the river that divides Texas and Mexico known, on the American side, as the Rio Grande. On the side of Mexico it has a different name: El Río Bravo, "the angry river" or "the fierce river".
Not all migrant deaths are from drowning, hundreds more die from extreme heat trying to cross the border in remote areas or hidden in the back of trailers suffocated by the heat and/or lack of air. News sources |
2022-08-10 (Y-m-d) Greek island of Karpathos, southeast Aegean Sea At least 50 migrants are said to be missing in the sinking of a boat off the Greek island of Karpathos, in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
There were about eighty people on board and the search for the missing is continuing. The boat had left from the Turkish coast and would have been bound for Italy. The rescued according to AFP (Agence France-Presse) are "Afghans, Iraqis and Iranians".
So far, the Greek Coast Guard has rescued 29 people, but the search continues because, according to their statements, there were between 20 and 50 people on the boat,” said Nikos Kokalas, the Greek Coast Guard spokesman. searches are hampered by strong winds, he said.
The sunken vessel had sailed from the Turkish city of Antalya and was bound for Italy. Rescuers reported that "many of the castaways were not wearing life jackets".
The dangerous crossing of a few nautical miles between the Greek islands and the Turkish coast in the Aegean Sea, located in the eastern Mediterranean, costs the lives of many migrants and refugees who try to reach Europe aboard makeshift boats to escape wars and misery. News sources |
2022 (Y) Spain, Canary Route, Strait of Gibraltar, Alboran Sea, route from Algeria Nearly 1,000 migrants died during the first six months of 2022 in an attempt to reach the coast of Spain through the southern border. This was revealed by a report by the Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras monitoring the first half of 2022. Among the dead are 118 women and 41 children. The months of January and June were the busiest; lethal.Most of the victims were died on the Canary Islands route (800), 2 more in the Strait of Gibraltar, 35 in the Alboran Sea and 101 on the route from Algeria. 87.83% of the victims are disappeared at sea and their bodies were not recovered.In total, 18 boats have disappeared and there have been 44 shipwrecks which, according to Caminando Fronteras, have occurred, mainly because; search and rescue vehicles were not activated or not sent quickly, due to a lack of coordination between Spain and Morocco. News sources |
2022-06-26 (Y-m-d) San Antonio (Texas) 50 people have been found dead inside an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas. There are also 16 injured, including four children, some in critical condition. In that area, temperatures have exceeded 39 degrees for days.
Authorities in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras confirmed that nationals of their countries were among the victims.
According to a 2020 report from the Guatemalan President's Office, 84% of Nahualá's residents live in poverty and 13% live in extreme poverty.
Most households do not live in overcrowded conditions and 99.37% of households are single-family homes, according to the country's National Statistics Institute.
People seeking to enter the country this way usually pay smugglers fees in excess of $12,000 to get them across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The San Antonio massacre is one of the worst in American history. In 2003 nineteen migrants were found dead in a truck in Texas: the driver of the vehicle had asked $7,500 per person for the "passage" and had never turned on the air conditioning, so much so that temperatures inside the truck had exceeded the 70 degrees. In 2017, then, ten migrants were found dead in Texas aboard a truck in a Walmart parking lot. News sources |
2022-05-11 (Y-m-d) Canary Islands Canary Islands: 28 Migrants Drowned In Shipwreck
28 people drowned after a zodiac sank in the south of Canary Islands.
Rabat – A shipwreck south of Canary Islands cost lives to 28 people on Monday. A tweet from Helena Malena Garzon, an activist of the NGO Caminando Fronteras, announced that the incident occurred during an attempt to cross from the Moroccan coast to the Spanish islands.
Only 13 people, including a teenager, were rescued from the shipwreck. According to the survivors, the 41 immigrants had left Laayoune on Sunday night using an inflatable boat.
The boat overturned off by night and the survivors managed to cling to the drifting zodiac. The Salvamento maritime plane spotted them and informed the rescue services. News sources |
2022-03-12 (Y-m-d) Tobruk, Libyan coast On 12 March, a boat carrying 25 migrants capsized near the Libyan coast of Tobruk. Seven bodies recovered while 12 are missing. News sources |
2022-02-27 (Y-m-d) Sabrata (Libya) On 27 February, a fiberglass boat that left the port of Sabrata capsized four hours later due to bad sea conditions. None survived. Fifteen bodies were found a few days later. Among them also a child, they were brought ashore in the following days. 35 migrants are still missing. News sources |
2022 (Y) Qatar (football world cup 2022) Football World Cup Qatar reported the deaths of 400-500 migrant workersThe Middle Eastern country of Qatar has made extensive preparations to host the 2022 World Cup. And country officials have admitted to the deaths of 400-500 migrant workers during the implementation of the project. Hassan Al-Thawadi, head of the organizing committee admitted this in an interview. However, he could not tell the exact number of victims. Referring to the number of expat worker deaths in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, he said: "This number will be much higher." between 400 and 500 people'. But I don't know the exact information. was broadcast on Monday. He said: & # 39; One's own death is a death. much, & egrave; very normal. Every year we improve our health and safety aspects. Especially in the places where we are responsible for hosting the [translated from the original by www.jagonews24.com] World CupWorld Cup in Qatar, more; of 6,500 dead to build stadiums: what we knowOn 20 November, the twenty-second edition of the World Cup officially kicks off, which this year is being held in Qatar. For the first time the event was held in a Middle Eastern country and there was no lack of controversy relating to the number of workers who died in the construction of the stadiums and all related structures, designed to house and entertain the fans. We have been talking about a figure for some time: 6,500 workers who have died in the last eleven years, since this the country has begun a frenetic activity; construction in preparation for the World Cup [tg24.sky.it] News sources |
2022 (Y) Mediterranean The IOM (International Organization for Migration) estimates that the number of deaths of migrants who left Africa and Asia to reach Europe is of 2406 for the year 2022.The IOM has set up a “Missing migrant project” active since 2014 with which it takes into account the victims by taking into consideration three routes: Central, Western and Eastern Mediterranean. The first, which connects Libya and Tunisia to Italy, is the most lethal. Over 17 thousand dead and missing were recorded from 2014 to the first months of 2023. The worst massacre in the central Mediterranean dates back to 3 October 2013: a 20-metre boat departing from Misrata, in Libya, was shipwrecked half a mile from Lampedusa. The toll of confirmed dead is of 368 people while about twenty are missing. News sources |
2021-11-24 (Y-m-d) Largo de Calais, on the English Channel On 27 February, a fiberglass boat that left the port of Sabrata capsized four hours later due to bad sea conditions. None survived. Fifteen bodies were found a few days later. Among them also a child, they were brought ashore in the following days. 35 migrants are still missing. News sources |
2021-11-24 (Y-m-d) Calais (France) Migrants from Calais: French rescuers were unable to help the boat which sank in the crossing.
There is growing evidence that French rescue services failed to intervene adequately to rescue a migrant boat that sank in the English Channel last November with at least 33 people on board. Only two of the migrant passengers survived the disaster.
Transcripts of emergency calls made to the French coastguard, seen by the BBC, suggest desperate passengers were repeatedly told to call UK emergency services, despite being in French waters when they first called for help. News sources |
2021-04-22 (Y-m-d) Libya, Libyan Sar northeast of Tripoli The shipwreck yesterday in the Libyan Sar area off Tripoli. Sos Mediterranee: "There were 130 people on board the dinghy". Looking for another boat with 40 people. The IOM: "They could have been saved". The migrants who had phoned asking for help 48 hours earlier said they were 130 on board that dinghy. The Ocean Viking is continuing the search, for other bodies, for possible survivors but also for another boat with 40 migrants who has been missing since Wednesday and who, at this point, could have met the same tragic end given that the weather conditions are still very bad with six meters high waves. While the second dinghy was intercepted by the Libyans and brought back. News sources |
2020-08-17 (Y-m-d) Libya (coast) At least 45 migrants died in the shipwreck in front of Libya.
I am currently forty-five. They came from Senegal, Mali, Chad, and Ghana. Among them were also five children. They are the confirmed dead so far of the worst shipwreck - known - of 2020 which took place on August 17 in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. This is what the International Organization for Migration (IOM) affirms in a tweet in which together with the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, warns: "Without a dedicated relief operation and a mechanism for landings led by the European Union, more lives will be lost in the Mediterranean”. News sources |
2019-07-10 (Y-m-d) off Tunisia At least 71 migrants were rescued from a boat that sank off the coast of Tunisia en route to Italy. Among them are at least 37 Bangladeshis, the government said on Tuesday. the Tunisian National Guard. The boat of migrants stopped; capsized while on its way to Italy from nearby Libya. Rescuers rescued 71 migrants from the coast, National Guard spokesman Hosem Edin Jebali told AFP. 37 are Bangladeshi nationals. There are also eight Moroccans, four Sudanese, seven Algerians, two Canadians and one Tunisian. News sources |
2019-06-19 (Y-m-d) Alboran Sea (off the coast of Spain) At least 22 missing as a result of a shipwreck in the Alborán Sea, off the Spanish coast. A Salvamento Marítimo helicopter transported three critically ill men to Almería. They were traveling on a boat from North Africa, which was rescued by a ferry that covered the Melilla-Motril route. There were 27 survivors on the boat, but the other 22 people who are missing at sea are being sought. In all, in fact, the occupants of the boat that left from the Moroccan coast were 49. News sources |
2019-01-18 (Y-m-d) Tripoli (45 miles offshore) A massacre. There were 120 on board that dinghy wrecked yesterday morning 45 miles from Tripoli. The story told to the IOM representatives of the only three survivors, rushed yesterday afternoon to Lampedusa on a Navy helicopter in a serious state of hypothermia, is dramatic.
There would therefore be 117 missing in the first shipwreck of the year: no one else besides the two Sudanese and a Gambian, now taken to the Lampedusa hotspot, would have survived. The searches continued throughout the night around the two rafts launched from a Navy helicopter to the shipwrecked, who fell into the sea from the rubber boat 45 miles east of Tripoli, in the Libyan Sar area, without results. The dinghy was not even found, sighted while it was sinking. According to the survivors, there were also ten women on board, including a pregnant girl, and two small children, one only ten months old. News sources |
2019-01-17 (Y-m-d) Alboran Sea, in the western Mediterranean (The date of the shipwreck is not certain) Something must have happened beyond the Mediterranean. Despite the Italian closure and despite the winter, the boats have returned to sail towards our coasts. In addition to the shipwreck that affected 117 people (18/01/2019), the UNHCR reports another shipwreck in which 53 people are said to have died in the Mediterranean. The tragedy would have occurred in the Alboran Sea, in the western Mediterranean. "It has been reported that a survivor, after being at the mercy of the waves for more than 24 hours, was rescued by a fishing boat and is receiving medical treatment in Morocco." News sources |
2018-06-03 (Y-m-d) Kerkennah Islands (Tunisia) 11 migrants dead and another 67 rescued, Tunisians and other nationalities. This is the first toll of a shipwreck that occurred during the night off the Kerkennah Islands, in Tunisia, according to the Interior Ministry. The rescue units of the Tunisian navy, the note reads, intervened after the SOS for a fishing boat in distress. According to local sources, over 100 people were traveling on board the boat. The Tunisian Coast Guard is continuing search operations. News sources |
2018-01-06 (Y-m-d) off the Libyan coast The number of migrants who died in the shipwreck of the Epiphany off the Libyan coast would have risen to 64. This was stated by Flavio Di Giacomo, Italian spokesman for the International Organization for Migration on Twitter. According to the testimonies collected by the IOM in Catania, at the time of departure the dinghy which later sank was carrying 150 people.
First shipwreck in the Mediterranean of 2018: 8 bodies, all of young women, lifeless recovered, 85 migrants saved but there would be at least 50 missing. That it will not be a good Epiphany can be understood immediately on board the ship Aquarius. In the morning, around 11, a radio communication arrives from the Coast Guard operations center in Rome. 40 sea miles from Tripoli there is a dinghy in difficulty with over 100 migrants on board, perhaps 150. It is taking on water from the bottom, it is already almost submerged. It was spotted by an aircraft from Operation Sophia of Eunavfor Med, which is patrolling the stretch of sea. [future]
The balance of the shipwreck of the Epiphany in the Mediterranean seems heavier than feared. From the testimonies of the survivors, collected by IOM personnel this morning after the landing in Catania, 150 had climbed onto the dinghy that sank. Therefore, of the 86 survivors and the bodies of the eight girls recovered, 56 people would be missing. A number, that of the missing, which brings the total number of deaths from this first shipwreck of 2018 to 64.
There were many children on board the dinghy: most of the children are among the missing. Two of those rescued and resuscitated on board by the medical team saw their mothers drown. The MSF team of psychologists is taking care of a three-year-old boy who lost his mother at sea and arrived alone. Assistance also to a family decimated by the massacre: only three are left alive. [La Republica] News sources |
2017-06-12 (Y-m-d) Strait of Sicily The ship Vos Prudence lands at the port of Palermo 724 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea.
The body of a man who died in the Sicilian channel is also counted. News sources |
2017-06-10 (Y-m-d) Offshore of Libya At least eight migrants have died and over 50 are missing at sea off the coast of Libya: a dinghy was wrecked, about 9 kilometers from Castelverde, the Italian name of Gasr Garabulli, 60 kilometers from Tripoli. As France Presse reports, citing a Libyan Navy official, "the eight bodies" recovered so far "are part of a total of 120 or 130 passengers who were on the boat". The survivors testified to what happened: almost 80 were saved by ships operating in the central Mediterranean. A total of 12 rescue operations were coordinated by the Coast Guard operations center in Rome. During the same operations, over 1,650 people were rescued. The migrants were aboard nine dinghies and three small boats. News sources |
2017-05-24 (Y-m-d) Off of the Libyan port of Zuara Thirty-four dead, drowned at sea. Among them also children, according to what testified by the NGOs involved in the relief efforts. When a new difficult day in the Central Mediterranean draws to a close, the Coast Guard issues the balance of the repeated rescue operations coordinated by its operations centre. The tragedy occurred off the Libyan port of Zuara, caused by the overturning of a boat. News sources |
2017-05-08 (Y-m-d) off the Libyan coast 6,000 saved over the weekend. Since the beginning of the year, UNHCR reports, more than 43,000 people have already been saved. Tragedy on a dinghy and a boat off the coast of Libya.
It was another weekend of fear and horror in the Mediterranean. While the debate on NGOs and the alleged "guilt" of saving too many lives continues in the newspapers and on TV, people continue to die at sea. Almost 200 lives lost in a few hours. The new tragic story came from a group of refugees loaded onto the Fiorillo patrol vessel which brought 407 migrants to Pozzallo, in the Ragusa area, on Sunday. «We were 120 on the dinghy, which was overloaded. We started taking on water." 80 would be missing at sea, including the smuggler: the survivors remained in the water for a long time until the arrival of the rescuers, who rescued them. The Prosecutor of Ragusa has opened an investigation into the tragedy.
Another shipwreck occurred off the coast of Libya. This was reported by the International Organization for Migration: the vessel had sailed a few miles when it sank. The Libyan Coast Guard intervened on the spot and saved just seven people - six men and a woman - off the coast of Az Zawiyah. One of the survivors said 113 people are missing. News sources |
2016 (Y) World Oim, over 7,100 is the estimate of migrants who died in 2016 aloneA record of 7,189 migrants or refugees is the same; the estimate of the dead or people who go missing in the world since the beginning of 2016, more than half of the of which, estimated at 4,812, in the Mediterranean alone. These terrible figures were disclosed in December 2016 in Geneva by the IOM (International Organization for Migration). The data provided exceeds one thousand units of the data. that of 2015. The world average of deaths linked to emigration is 50%. estimated at 20 deaths per day for 2016. In 2014, the IOM had reported an estimate of 5,267 migrants dead or missing on the dangerous global migration routes and last year (2014) the figure had risen to 5,740, specifies a note.
The IOM underlines the fact that the number of migrants who have died or are still missing (presumed dead) appears to be increasing in all regions of the world, including the Mediterranean, the Northern and Southern Africa, Central America, and the US-Mexico border. News sources |
2015-04-18 (Y-m-d) Strait of Sicily The so-called tragedy in the Strait of Sicily was the sinking of an Eritrean boat used to transport migrants on the night of April 18, 2015 off the coast of Libya. The shipwreck caused 58 confirmed victims or 525 according to other sources, 28 rescued survivors and between 700 and 900 presumed missing, numbers that place it as one of the most serious maritime tragedies in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the 21st century. News sources |
2015 (Y) Mediterranean Migrants, IOM: in 2015 at least 3,771 died in the Mediterranean while arrivals by sea are estimated at 997,000.2015 turns out to be the busiest year ever. tragic: in April the highest number; high number of victims. The most important route safe for those fleeing wars and inhumane living conditions – the one towards Greece, the most; the one towards the Bay of Bengal is dangerous 2015 is the year of the year. It was a tragic year for migrants, with 3,771 dead and missing in the Mediterranean. This dramatic balance sheet is been disclosed by the World Organization for Migration. In 2014, 3419 deaths were estimated. Arrivals via sea in 2015 were estimated at 996,645. The IOM also estimates that at least 5,350 migrants died in the world in 2015. News sources |
2014 (Y) Mediterranean There were 3,419 dead in the Mediterranean in 2014At least 3,419 migrants have lost their lives in the Mediterranean since January 2014, the crossing is one of the worst cases in the world. it becomes so; the “most road; mortal of the world". This was announced by the United Nations agency for refugees. Since the beginning of the year, according to UNHCR data, I've been more 207,000 migrants attempted to cross the Mediterranean, nearly three times the previous record set in 2011, when 70,000 migrants fled their country during the Arab Spring. With the conflicts in Libya, Ukraine and southeast Syria, Europe is left behind. currently the destination of a large number of migrants arriving by sea. Almost 80 percent of departures take place from the Libyan coast and reach Italy or Malta. Most of the migrants who arrived in Italy this year come from Syria (60,051), given that the country is the largest in Italy. crossed by a war for over three and a half years and from Eritrea (34,561) from where they flee political repression, military service for life and unpaid forced labour. Afp News sources |
2013-10-11 (Y-m-d) In front of the island of Lampedusa On 11 October 2013, a few days after the terrible shipwreck that took place on 3 October 2013 in front of the island of Lampedusa, a Syrian doctor aboard a boat that left Libya together with a large number of people (an estimated number between 250 and 400, including many children) called the Italian maritime rescue coordination center (IMRCC) 6 times in the space of 5 hours, describing in detail the very serious situation in which the boat was, reporting engine failures, the presence of injured people on board and many minors and clearly describing the emergency deriving from the fact that the ship was taking on water.
268 Syrians fleeing the war have drowned, including 60 children. News sources |
2013-10-03 (Y-m-d) Lampedusa The shipwreck caused 368 confirmed deaths and about 20 presumed missing, numbers that place it as one of the most serious maritime disasters in the Mediterranean since the beginning of the 21st century. 155 survivors were rescued, 41 of whom were minors (only one accompanied by his family). News sources |
2013-09-30 (Y-m-d) Scicli, Syracuse At least 13 migrants drowned this morning in the Ragusa area while trying to escape from a boat that ran aground in Scicli. According to the first reconstructions, the immigrants were seized by smugglers and forced to throw themselves into the sea. News sources |
2011-01-03 (Y-m-d) Yemen Two boats of African migrants sank off the Yemeni coast due to strong winds and, perhaps, a tidal wave. At least 40 of them drowned, but as many are missing in another shipwreck and it is feared that for them too we must speak of yet another tragedy of the sea. This was announced by the Yemeni interior ministry with a statement in which it speaks of a first boat wrecked near the coast, in the province of Taez, in which there were a group of Ethiopians. News sources |
2003-10-17 (Y-m-d) off Lampedusa A boat carrying about 30 illegal immigrants sank off Lampedusa. Four non-EU citizens drowned. News sources |
2003-10-03 (Y-m-d) off the island of Lampedusa A boat carrying 30 North African migrant citizens sinks off the island of Lampedusa. One of them loses his life. News sources |
2003-06-29 (Y-m-d) off Cap Bon (Tunisia) A boat bound for Lampedusa sinks off Cap Bon, three people lose their lives and 35 others are saved. News sources |
2003-06-20 (Y-m-d) International waters, about sixty nautical miles from Sfax and twenty miles from the islands of Kerkenah A boat carrying 250 migrants from various African countries was wrecked off the coast of Tunisia.
According to information from the Tunisian agency Tap, the boat was headed for Italy. The alarm was given by radio from a fishing boat which was in the area of the shipwreck. Several rescue vehicles intervened on the spot and managed to rescue dozens of people, but 20 people remain dead and a large number of missing.
"[..] On the other hand, the 100 non-EU citizens who since yesterday had been adrift on a boat about 60 miles south of Lampedusa were all rescued. The boat had been spotted by an Atlantic aircraft of the Navy, and this morning the ships Driade and Danade arrived in the area, signaling the danger of the situation. The vessel was in fact in very bad condition. The sea was very rough. So the ships sent a request for a urgent aid intervention.
Coast Guard vehicles and a helicopter were sent to the site under the coordination of the Palermo port authority. Among the people on board there were also 20 women and children, who were transferred aboard a patrol boat. The rescue operations, made particularly difficult by the bad weather conditions, were brought to a successful conclusion also thanks to the intervention of the two ships already mentioned, which created a sheltered area allowing the transhipment." [la Repubblica.it] News sources |
2003-06-20 (Y-m-d) 20 miles SE of Kerkennah Islands 20 miles southeast of the Kerkenah islands, off the coast of Tunisia, a boat carrying about 200 people is wrecked. The bodies of the migrants recovered are 20. News sources |
2003-06-17 (Y-m-d) Largo di Lampedusa (Italy) A migrant boat sinks in the waters off Lampedusa. Six bodies of drowned migrants were recovered. There were about 70 people on board the vessel. Only three are the survivors of the shipwreck. News sources |
2003-01-19 (Y-m-d) (first shipwreck) off the coast of Puglia, twenty miles from Capo Santa Maria di Leuca (Italy). (second shipwreck) off Morocco. January 19, 2003. Off the coast of Puglia, twenty miles from Capo Santa Maria di Leuca, six bodies of migrants of Kurdish and Iraqi nationality are recovered. The small boat on which the migrants were traveling is intercepted by the Russian tanker «Brother 4». Only six men survived on board, while 23 are missing.
On the same day, off the coast of Morocco, 18 immigrants who were on board a dinghy en route to reach Europe drowned. News sources |
2002-12-01 (Y-m-d) (first shipwreck) off the coast of Libya (second shipwreck) off the coast of Morocco A total of 44 bodies of drowned migrants are recovered, victims of two shipwrecks off the coasts of Libya and Morocco. News sources |
2002-09-22 (Y-m-d) Scoglitti beach, in the province of Ragusa (Italy) A smuggler abandons a group of migrants from Tunisia in the sea, 300 meters from the beach of Scoglitti, in the province of Ragusa.
14 people die whose bodies are found 40 kilometers from Ragusa, while about fifty of them manage to save themselves. The smuggler is arrested at sea while trying to escape towards Gela. News sources |
2002-07-22 (Y-m-d) Vlora (Albania) In Vlora, Albania, two migrants die in a collision between a dinghy loaded with migrants and a patrol boat of the Guardia di Finanza.
A woman and a man died last night off the Albanian coast near Punta Linguetta in the south of the country. They were aboard a dinghy that was attempting to escape from an Italian Finance Police patrol boat at the Durazzo base. Other victims are not excluded, but so far rescuers have recovered only two bodies. The exact number of people crammed onto the dinghy that was trying to reach Italy is not known, but sources from the Vlora hospital report 32 people hospitalized following the tragedy. Punta Linguetta is the most serious accident in recent months. News sources |
2002-06-12 (Y-m-d) Kelibia (Tunisia) 11 migrants drowned in Kelibia, Tunisia, trying to swim to the ship that was moored off the coast and which would have made its way to Italy. News sources |
2002-06-08 (Y-m-d) coast of Castro Marina, in the province of Lecce A few tens of meters from the coast of Castro Marina, in the province of Lecce, Albanian smugglers, spotted by the Guardia di Finanza, throw 40 migrants into the sea and stab those who resist. Four bodies are recovered at sea. News sources |
2002-03-11 (Y-m-d) coast of Otranto (Italy) Six bodies of migrants, tied to the hull of a dinghy in distress, are recovered on the coast of Otranto. The dinghy, which had left from Vlora, Albania, had caught fire. 23 people are saved. News sources |
2002-03-07 (Y-m-d) Strait of Sicily (Italy) In the Strait of Sicily, 65 miles from Lampedusa, a seven-metre boat is wrecked. Twelve migrants died by drowning, while the number of missing is uncertain. [Corriere.it]
More than 50 Kurds disappear in a shipwreck near the Sicilian coast [ilfattoquotidiano.it] News sources |
2001-07-09 (Y-m-d) coasts of Ragusa, between Punta Secca and Scoglitti (Italy) Four migrants thrown into the sea by smugglers drown while trying to swim to the coast of Ragusa, between Punta Secca and Scoglitti. The migrants had been abandoned several hundred meters from the Sicilian coast. News sources |
2001-06-10 (Y-m-d) Trani, Bari (Italy) Twelve Albanian migrants die in Trani, in the province of Bari, perhaps thrown into the sea by smugglers. There are 22 survivors. News sources |
2000-05-04 (Y-m-d) Salento coast (Italy) A dinghy loaded with migrants rams a police boat four kilometers off the coast of Salento. Two people die and at least ten are missing. News sources |
1999-12 (Y-m) channel of Otranto (Italy) [precise date of the shipwreck not known] A dinghy full of migrants sinks in the Otranto canal. 59 migrants drowned. [no other information found] News sources |
1999-08-15 (Y-m-d) Montenegrin coasts (Montenegro) Off the Montenegrin coast, a "cart of the sea" full of Roma families is said to have been wrecked. More than a hundred migrants drowned.
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1999-05-16 (Y-m-d) waters of Vlora (Albania) Six migrants, including some children, die following the collision of the dinghy on which they were traveling against a rock in the waters of Vlora, Albania. News sources |
1997-11-21 (Y-m-d) Otranto canal (Italy) Sixteen Albanian migrants who departed from Durazzo die in the Otranto canal when the dinghy they were sailing on explodes. News sources |
1997-03-28 (Y-m-d) Otranto canal (Italy) Following a collision with the Italian Navy corvette "Sibilla" sinks the Albanian ship "Kater I Rades". The bodies of four migrants are recovered, while 34 of them are rescued. In the following month of October, the wreck of the boat was recovered, with another 54 corpses of dead migrants on board. News sources |
1996-12-25 (Y-m-d) between Malta and Sicily (Italy) Two hundred migrants, mainly Pakistanis, drown between Malta and Sicily, following the clash between the Lebanese cargo ship "Friendship" and the motor ship "Yohan". News sources |
1948 (Y) NAKBA - Palestinian exodus of 1948NAKBA - Palestinian exodus of 1948 NAKBA - Palestinian exodus of 1948The 1948 Palestinian exodus (Arabic: الهجرة الفلسطينية, al-Hijra al-Filasṭīniyya) was one of the most devastating events in the world. known as nakba (Arabic: النكبة, al-Nakba, literally "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"), it represents the exodus of the Palestinian Arab population during the 1947-48 civil war , at the end of the British Mandate, and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after the establishment of the State of Israel. Nakba is the name assigned to this event by historiography. During this conflict, over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs were forced to flee cities and towns. and villages, or were expelled from it, and subsequently were denied all their right to return to their lands, both during and after the conflict. *** In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly, then made up of 57 member states, approved the United Nations General Assembly. a resolution to divide the mandate for Palestine into a Jewish and a Palestinian state. The plan awarded more students. by half of the country to the Jewish state at a time when Jews formed about a third of the population. The plan would also have left some 500,000 Palestinians living in a future Jewish state with a stark choice: remain a minority in a Jewish state or leave. The Palestinians rejected the proposal and when the British mandate ended; in 1948, Israel declared; its independence. Fighting broke out and 5 Arab countries - Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria - deployed forces to stem the flow of Palestinian refugees. The aftermath of the fighting saw Israel capture additional land that the UN plan had earmarked for a Palestinian state, while Egypt and Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively. Over time, Israel has taken control of more and more countries. lands previously designated by the United Nations as part of a future Palestinian state. After the June 1967 war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, Israel occupied the United Arab Emirates. the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In recent decades, Israeli settlements in the West Bank have expanded under successive governments, with the settler population surpassing half a million earlier this year. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, and a large part of the community is illegal. sees them as an obstacle to peace and the future Palestinian state. News sources |
1947 (Y) In the Mediterranean en route to British Palestine (1946-1947). The Exodus 1947 (in Hebrew Yetzi'at Eiropa Tashaz, i.e. Exodus Europa 5707, where 5707 is the year that goes from the autumn of 1946 to the ; autumn 1947 according to the Jewish calendar) was a ship, also known as President Warfield, which in 1947 was commissioned to transport Jews in great secrecy who were leaving illegally from Europe to reach the biblical Land of Israel, then under the control British with the ancient Roman name of Palestine. On November 9, 1946, the ship was purchased for $40,000 by the Potomac Shipwrecking Co. of Washington D.C., on behalf of the Haganah, to be used for Aliyah Bet. emigration to British Palestine. The battle lasted for a long time. about four hours: the migrants tried to defend themselves with everything; what they had available, such as life preservers and metal hoses, and spraying the ship's fuel on soldiers who tried to board, but when the British began to use firearms, Captain Harel decided to surrender to avoid further casualties . Migrants were taken prisoner and sent to concentration camps in Cyprus; later the British government decided to bring them back to France. The Exodus was abandoned for the next five years. Her in 1952 she caught fire, only to be dismantled in 1963. News sources |
1945-01-30 (Y-m-d) SHIPWRECK of the ship Wilhelm GustloffBaltic Sea The Wilhelm Gustloff was a passenger ship of the German company Kraft durch Freude (KdF) which became infamous for being sunk on January 30, 1945 in the Baltic Sea by a Soviet submarine during the Second World War . The war action caused the death of about 9,000 people, going down in history as the most serious sinking never recorded for number of victims involved. From May 1940 until July of the same year, Gustloff was in service in the Oslo area of Norway, as a floating hospital during the Norwegian campaign. During the summer of 1940, Gustloff was ordered to prepare for operations in the invasion of England, but that option was canceled by Adolf Hitler. Once again he set sail; then from Oslo with another 414 wounded. Shortly after this trip, I ended the trip. the hospital ship service, and sailed; in the direction of Gotenhafen. She was repainted in warship gray and converted into a barracks ship in the service of the Kriegsmarine, docked in the port of Gotenhafen. [..] Once the war was over, the rescue operations could be considered a success, as over two million people were transported. However, 25,000 to 30,000 people perished, especially following the sinking of the Gustloff and Goya which alone caused over 15,000 deaths. When Gustloff left; the protection of the port of Gotenhafen on 30 January 1945, the climatic conditions were very bad, with very strong winds, snow and a temperature of ten degrees below zero. Many blocks of ice floated in the Baltic Sea. The possibilities to survive for a sinking, in such a sea; cold and in weather like this, they were nil. Gustloff began; her voyage without any escorts, armed only with some anti-aircraft armament, while no anti-submarine defenses were installed. Sinking The passenger list included 918 officers, 173 crew members, 373 units members, and 373 crew members. Naval Auxiliaries formed exclusively by women, 162 wounded, and 4,424 refugees, for a total of 6,050 people. However, the official cargo list did not account for the hundreds of people who had taken their places on Gustloff's deck. In fact, new research shows that the total number of people at the time of the sinking was over 10,000. The most reliable research was that of Heinz Schon who divided the number of people as follows: 8956 refugees, 918 between officers and members of the 2. Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision, 373 women from the Unterseeboot-Lehrdivision; Auxiliaries, 173 men of the naval forces, and 162 wounded soldiers for a total of 10,582 people on board. At 21:08 on January 30, 1945 (21:08 Gotenhafen time, 23:08 Moscow time), the Russian submarine S-13 commanded by Lieutenant Commander Aleksandr Ivanovich Marinesko, launched ; four torpedoes against Gustloff. The first torpedo hit; the ship's bow directly below the waterline. Immediately Gustloff folded; to starboard. The signal flares and the SOS signal were immediately fired. The second torpedo hit; Gustloff in the pool area causing that area to explode completely, and finally the third torpedo hit the pool. the engine room devastating the entire hull. Soon the forecastle was almost completely submerged, while the stern rose above sea level. Part of the lifeboats remained unused due to frozen supports. In about fifty minutes, Gustloff sank; in the cold waters of the Baltic Sea, bringing with it; over 9,000 people, while only 1,320 survived. The sinking of the Gustloff was by far the most difficult. serious and frightening sinking in naval history. No other tragedy at sea has had such a loss of life. heavy. News sources |
1927-10-25 (Y-m-d) between Salvador de Bahia and Rio de Janeiro [..]
The ship departed for her last voyage from the port of Genoa on 11 October 1927, under the orders of the expert commander Simone Gulì, 62, a Neapolitan of Sicilian origins. There were 1,259 people on board, including a large minority of Syrian emigrants and above all numerous emigrants from Piedmont, Liguria and Veneto; among them was the pastry chef from Verona Ruggero Bauli, founder five years earlier of the homonymous confectionery company, which survived the disaster.[..]
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1912-04-14 (Y-m-d) Titanic's recorded position at impact was 41°46′N 50°14′W. The wreck was found at 41°43′N 49°56′W. The ocean liner RMS Titanic, belonging to the Olympic class of the White Star Line shipping company, brand new and engaged in her maiden voyage (from Southampton to New York, via Cherbourg and Queenstown), had a violent collision with an iceberg at 23:40 (time of the ship) on Sunday 14 April 1912. The impact caused the opening of some leaks under the waterline, flooding the bow locker and 5 of the watertight compartments of the transatlantic, which sank 2 hours and 40 minutes later (at 2 :20 of April 15) breaking into two sections. In the sinking, 1490 to 1635 of the 2223 people on board lost their lives, including 892 crew members; only 705 people managed to save themselves (some of whom died soon after being taken aboard the Carpathia).
There were just over 2,200 passengers and crew on board the vessel. Many passengers had previously booked on other ships and were diverted to the Titanic due to a coal strike. In the second class people of the middle class traveled, such as clerks, teachers and merchants, while the third class was crowded with emigrants from all over the world, assisted by the on-board interpreter. News sources |
1906-08-04 (Y-m-d) Cape Palos on the Mediterranean coast of Spain The Sirio was an Italian steamer built in Glasgow, suitable for the transport of Italian emigrants; launched in 1883, she was shipwrecked in 1906 off the coast of Cape Palos in Cartagena. Its tragic shipwreck, in which between 293 and 500 people perished, represents one of the most serious naval disasters of the Italian merchant marine and one of the worst disasters, together with the sinking of the ships Utopia, Principessa Mafalda and Orazio, which involved the emigrants Italians bound for the Americas. News sources |
1898-07-04 (Y-m-d) Sable Island (Nova Scotia) Shortly before five o'clock on the morning of July 4, 1898, La Bourgogne, en route from New York to Le Havre, collided with the British tall ship Cromartyshire about 110 km south of Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Although the area was enveloped in thick fog, the French liner and the British vessel were both traveling at full speed.
Since the days immediately following the tragedy, very heavy accusations began to be launched against the crew and her conduct during the shipwreck. If in fact among the 506 passengers embarked there were only 69 survivors, of whom only one woman and no children, among the 220 sailors there were 104 survivors. Several surviving passengers testified that sailors during the evacuation had threatened them with knives to secure a place on a lifeboat. The behavior of the officers was different, and they remained in their posts until the ship sank. Among the victims were many Americans, but also Italian emigrants returning home. News sources |
1895-07-21 (Y-m-d) Island of Tino (La Spezia) The Ortigia had just left Genoa, bound for Massaua, in Eritrea, when near the island of Tino, almost at the same point where the impact with the Oncle Joseph had occurred, she collided with the Maria P. , a 53m long steamer, built in Sunderland, England, in 1886. News sources |
1891-03-17 (Y-m-d) Gibraltar The SS Utopia was a British steamer built in 1874 by the Robert Duncan & Co of Glasgow.
On 17 March 1891 she sank in just 20 minutes in the Bay of Gibraltar following a collision with the battleship HMS Anson. In the sinking, 562 of the more than 880 passengers embarked perished or were missing, mainly Italian emigrants bound for the United States of America, in addition to the crew members and two rescuers of the HMS Immortalité.
Together with the sinking of the steamers Sirio and Principessa Mafalda, it was one of the most serious naval disasters in the history of Italian emigration. News sources |
1888-09-13 (Y-m-d) port of Las Palmas, in the Spanish Canary archipelago The Sud America I was an Italian steamer active along the transoceanic route between Genoa and South America. She sank in the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on September 13, 1888.
In the early hours of the morning of 13 September 1888, the South America I, which set sail on 26 August from Montevideo and loaded with about 300 passengers, entered the port of Las Palmas, in the Spanish Canary archipelago, to carry out the operations of unloading and refueling . At 6 in the morning, while she was still at anchor, she was rammed by the French steamer La France, bound for South America. Due to the larger dimensions of the transalpine ship, whose tonnage was 4,575 tons, the Italian vessel was literally run over. The impact caused by the bow of La France opened a leak in the side of Sud America I which sank in half an hour at a depth of 15 metres. Despite being only 600 meters from the shore, 81 passengers, mostly Italian emigrants returning from Uruguay and Brazil, and 6 crew members died in the disaster [7] [8]. Many of those who perished were workers returning to Italy after long periods spent in South America. To prevent thefts and robberies during the journey, the emigrants used to hide the money earned over the years inside the belt or waistcoat. This precaution proved fatal in this case; many of the victims ended up being dragged down by the weight of the coins. News sources |
1888 (Y) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean (between Europe and the Americas) The United States and South America became the destinations of millions of Italians in the second half of the 1800s and early 1900s. Overloaded ships, precarious hygienic conditions, diseases, epidemics, food shortages were the cause of numerous deaths during the crossings.
Among the many cases, we can mention the 52 who died of hunger on board the ships "Matteo Bruzzo" and "Carlo Raggio", which left Genoa in 1888 for Brazil, the 24 who died of asphyxiation who had embarked on the ship "Frisca" . Then we remember those who, in 1889, after having embarked on the ship "Remo" understood that the owner had sold twice as many tickets compared to the seats available, so much so that cholera exploded on board. The dead were thrown into the sea. The number of passengers dropped by 4 or 5 a day. The vessel was rejected in Brazilian ports where it sought rescue. Or the tragedy of the ship "Sirio" during which 500 emigrants died. News sources |
1880-11-24 (Y-m-d) Island of Tino (La Spezia) On the night of 24 November 1880, the Oncle Joseph, with 350 emigrants on board, hits the Ortigia and sank in just eight minutes, killing 320 people.
It was ascertained that the Oncle Joseph, of the Valery company, had started its journey from Naples and should have called in Genoa, to then cross the Strait of Gibraltar and face the crossing of the Atlantic up to Buenos Aires. The ship carried a load of about 800 tons of goods, 264 passengers and 33 crewmen. The travelers were almost all southerners, mostly from Calabria and Molise, who had decided to leave their homeland to emigrate to other countries. Only 35 emigrants and 23 sailors survived. News sources |
1880-08-24 (Y-m-d) Argentine coast On August 24, 1880, the Italian steamer Ortigia, loaded with emigrants, was rammed by the merchant ship Oncle Ioseph off the Argentine coast: 149 dead.
«Crouched on the blanket, near the stairs, with the plates between their legs and the piece of bread between their feet, our emigrants ate their meal like poor people at the doors of the convents.
It is a degradation from the moral side and a danger from the hygienic one, because everyone can imagine what a deck of a steamer tossed by the sea is like, on which all the voluntary and involuntary rubbish of that traveling population spills. The soiling of the dormitories is such that every morning the emigrants have to go out onto the open deck to clean the floors. According to the regulations, the dormitories are swept with sawdust, disinfectants are mixed if necessary, they are diligently washed and dried. But all the excrements and rubbish that accumulate on the floors corrupt the air with strong emanations and cleaning will be difficult". [Teodorico Rosati, health inspector on emigrant ships] News sources |
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