Published : 28-05-2022
A Palestinian refugee family said their son Mahmoud Ali Tayeh who had gone missing off the Tunisian coast has just been pronounced dead.
Mahmoud’s death was confirmed on Friday, just a couple of days after his brother Husain was also pronounced dead.
The family’s friends in Tunisia headed for Sfax governorate where the victims’ bodies were identified.
A few days earlier, the family of Palestinian brothers Husain Ali Tayeh, born in 1999, and Mahmoud Ali Tayeh, born in 2001, appealed to international human rights organizations to work on identifying their sons’ condition.
Both Husain and Mahmoud, raised in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Aleppo, had disappeared after the Europe-bound migrant boat sank off the southern Tunisian island of Kerkennah on May 25.
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.
Six Palestinian refugees from Syria have been detained along with other asylum seekers by Libyan authorities since May 25.
The asylum seekers were transferred to custody in the city of Zuwara in northwestern Libya. They were trying to reach Italy when they were arrested.
AGPS has been able to identify the six Palestinian refugees: Mohamed Afifa, Ali Nabulsi, Omar Kadurah, Osama Khatib, Mohamed Mustafa Mi’ari (born in 1992), and Jamil Mohamed.
Their families have urged the Palestinian Authority, the International Red Cross, and the other international human rights organizations to pressurize the Libyan authorities to immediately release their relatives.
A Palestinian refugee family said their son Mahmoud Ali Tayeh who had gone missing off the Tunisian coast has just been pronounced dead.
Mahmoud’s death was confirmed on Friday, just a couple of days after his brother Husain was also pronounced dead.
The family’s friends in Tunisia headed for Sfax governorate where the victims’ bodies were identified.
A few days earlier, the family of Palestinian brothers Husain Ali Tayeh, born in 1999, and Mahmoud Ali Tayeh, born in 2001, appealed to international human rights organizations to work on identifying their sons’ condition.
Both Husain and Mahmoud, raised in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Aleppo, had disappeared after the Europe-bound migrant boat sank off the southern Tunisian island of Kerkennah on May 25.
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.
Six Palestinian refugees from Syria have been detained along with other asylum seekers by Libyan authorities since May 25.
The asylum seekers were transferred to custody in the city of Zuwara in northwestern Libya. They were trying to reach Italy when they were arrested.
AGPS has been able to identify the six Palestinian refugees: Mohamed Afifa, Ali Nabulsi, Omar Kadurah, Osama Khatib, Mohamed Mustafa Mi’ari (born in 1992), and Jamil Mohamed.
Their families have urged the Palestinian Authority, the International Red Cross, and the other international human rights organizations to pressurize the Libyan authorities to immediately release their relatives.
