Published : 26-05-2022
Two Palestinian refugee women were rescued and six others have been unaccounted for after a boat sank off the southern Tunisian coast of Kerkennah.
The boat with dozens of illegal migrants onboard was bound for Europe.
Palestinian refugees Lana Darwish and Karima Kuseih, from AlRaml refugee camp, in Latakia, were rescued and transferred to a hospital in Sfax city, where they received medical treatment.
Six other Palestinian refugees sheltered in the displacement camps of AlRaml and AlNeirab, in Syria, have gone missing. They are: Tawfiq AlKuseih, Rasha Ghazwan, and the brothers Husain Ali Tayeh (born in 1999) and Mahmoud Ali Tayeh (born in 2001).
Unverified reports claimed that refugees Sawsan AlDayeh and Fadi Bilal Fayad reached Valetta Port in Malta after they were rescued by Maltese, Italian and Tunisian coast guards.
Dozens of migrants and asylum seekers have died or gone missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast a few days ago.
A rubber boat sailed from the coast of the city of Zuwara in northwestern Libya carrying 100 migrants and asylum seekers before it sank last Monday off the coast of the state of Sfax, southeast of Tunisia.
According to the International Organization for Migration, 24 people were rescued, and 76 others are still missing.
Most of the victims are from sub-Saharan Africa, and some of them are of Arab nationalities, but it has not yet been possible to accurately determine the nationalities of the drowned.
Since the beginning of this year, the number of documented migrant and asylum seeker drownings has risen to about 800, in more than 85 incidents in the Mediterranean. This is almost equal to the number during the same period last year, which indicates that the concerned parties ignore all efforts to save the lives of these innocent people.
Two Palestinian refugee women were rescued and six others have been unaccounted for after a boat sank off the southern Tunisian coast of Kerkennah.
The boat with dozens of illegal migrants onboard was bound for Europe.
Palestinian refugees Lana Darwish and Karima Kuseih, from AlRaml refugee camp, in Latakia, were rescued and transferred to a hospital in Sfax city, where they received medical treatment.
Six other Palestinian refugees sheltered in the displacement camps of AlRaml and AlNeirab, in Syria, have gone missing. They are: Tawfiq AlKuseih, Rasha Ghazwan, and the brothers Husain Ali Tayeh (born in 1999) and Mahmoud Ali Tayeh (born in 2001).
Unverified reports claimed that refugees Sawsan AlDayeh and Fadi Bilal Fayad reached Valetta Port in Malta after they were rescued by Maltese, Italian and Tunisian coast guards.
Dozens of migrants and asylum seekers have died or gone missing after their boat sank off the Tunisian coast a few days ago.
A rubber boat sailed from the coast of the city of Zuwara in northwestern Libya carrying 100 migrants and asylum seekers before it sank last Monday off the coast of the state of Sfax, southeast of Tunisia.
According to the International Organization for Migration, 24 people were rescued, and 76 others are still missing.
Most of the victims are from sub-Saharan Africa, and some of them are of Arab nationalities, but it has not yet been possible to accurately determine the nationalities of the drowned.
Since the beginning of this year, the number of documented migrant and asylum seeker drownings has risen to about 800, in more than 85 incidents in the Mediterranean. This is almost equal to the number during the same period last year, which indicates that the concerned parties ignore all efforts to save the lives of these innocent people.
