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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 5d

⚫️ 12 years ago, 368 people lost their lives in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa.

Preventable deaths at sea have not stopped. 25,470 people have gone missing in the central Mediterranean since 2014.

We must not forget.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 9d

Libyan militias chase people in distress - one person drowned!

Yesterday, the so-called Libyan coastguard tried to force people back to Libya and chased them through the sea. When people fell into the water, they left them to die. One person drowned. This is murder!

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 9d

"In Libya, I spent two months in a building with no windows with other 90 people. Men would come at night and beat them. They allowed other men to take the girls away." This is what a 17- years-old girl from Eritrea shared with us on board MSF rescue boat.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 12d

"They hit you on the head or in your intimate parts. I have witnessed people dying." This is what a 24-year-old man from Somalia told us in 2016 while he was detained in Libya.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 12d

🚨 Sea-Watch 5 under fire while rescuing 66 people at sea.
At night, we were threatened by a Libyan militia vessel and ordered to leave “their waters.” Minutes after everyone was safely on board, a shot was fired. 👉 sea-watch.org/en/libyan-militia-fires-on-rescue-ship-sea-watch-5

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 13d

"When the war started, everything changed" - An 18-year-old man from Syria said. After his home was struck by a bomb, he fled with his family, only for their next house to be bombed as well. Life as he knew was gone.

https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 13d

MSF has signed a joint statement alongside a group of NGOs to denounce the recent attack made on the Ocean Viking, and to demand the immediate suspension of the EU’s cooperation with Libya.

MSF Signs Joint Letter Calling for Suspension of EU-Libya Cooperation

searchandrescue.msf.org

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 14d

"I left because people in my village wanted to do FGM to my daughter." A woman from Nigeria fled to Libya with her daughter, only to face more horrors, coerced into prostitution, and beaten for refusing. They ended up on a rubber boat. They didn’t choose this journey.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 15d

"He beat my belly until I lost the baby"

Behind every crossing, there is a story. A 23-year-old woman from Morocco, after moving to Libya in 2009 working as domestic help, was kidnapped and raped. 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 16d

"In Libya I was arrested. In prison they would ask for $500 to stop beating us, but I had no money. Some women were abused and raped." - This is what a 17-year-old girl from Eritrea told us after she crossed the Mediterranean. 🌊 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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Pilotes Volontaires @pilotesvolontaires.bsky.social · 19d

Le 5 septembre dernier, notre avion était immobilisé par les autorités italiennes pour des raisons contraires au droit maritime et aux droits fondamentaux. Pour continuer d'agir en mer méditerranée, et pour lutter contre cette décision, nous avons besoin de vous ⤵️

tinyurl.com/5dety2t3

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Refugees in Libya @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 18 October – Manifestation in Rome 🚨

We refuse to stay silent while Italy renews its bloody deal with Libyan militias.

We call on all comrades, refugees, allies & citizens of conscience: join us in Rome to say NO to the Italy–Libya Memorandum! ✊🏾

📍 Piazza dei Santi Apostoli – Rome
📅 18 October

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 19d

"They beat us and held guns to our heads." In 2014, a 27-year-old man from South Sudan fled the war seeking safety. His journey led him to Libya, where he was detained ⛓️ https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 19d

Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20d

Videos appear to show people smuggling by state-linked Libyan militia in Mediterranean

Sea rescue NGO says clips and images provide evidence that smugglers ‘are part of Tripoli’s official military apparatus’ Video footage and photos in the Italian press appear to show for the first time a militia allied with the Libyan government participating in people smuggling in the Mediterranean Sea. The clips and photographs, shared with the Guardian, were taken by a journalist for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica who had accompanied volunteers on a rescue boat operated by the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20d

"They kept hitting and kicking us," recalls a 17-year-old from Bangladesh who suffered violence in Libya. He shared his story with us aboard the MSF search and rescue boat in 2017. https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 21d

Another tragedy in the Mediterranean: 50 people dead.

#SafeRoutesNOW!

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Dr Javid Abdelmoneim @intlpresident.msf.org · 21d

My colleague Hussein was a dedicated nurse and father. Yesterday, he died of injuries from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.

Our thoughts are with Hussein’s wife and young children.

His killing isn't a tragic accident, it's unacceptable proof that no one is safe from genocide.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 23d

“Governments around the world – through political, military, or material support to Israel, or through silence – are complicit in the genocide [in Gaza].” - @chrislockyear.msf.org

Doctors can’t stop genocide, world leaders can.

Doctors cannot stop genocide- world leaders can | MSF

Christopher Lockyear, MSF's Secretary General, details how governments around the world are complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

www.msf.org

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20d

🎬 Join us today: Together with the Director, we invite you to the screening of 'The Sea Between Us', a powerful documentary that tells the stories of migration across the Mediterranean toward Europe. 🌊

🗓 When: Today, at 20:00
📍 Where: Sparwasser, V. del Pigneto 215, Roma

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21d

🎬Join us in Rome, for the screening of the powerful documentary 'The Sea Between Us', followed by a panel discussion.

Don't miss it! 📽️

🗓 When: September 18th, 20:00
📍 Where: Sparwasser, V. del Pigneto 215, Roma

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21d

"I was forced to marry. My husband kept raping me and treating me badly, so I decided to leave. I travelled with my friend whose husband is in Italy, but she drowned." An Ivorian girl was 12, when we met her onboard our rescue boat in 2016. 🖌️https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 22d

"All we had to eat was water mixed with flour and salt." A 13-year-old boy from Somaliland shared his story with us: he left home seeking a better future but was caught, sent to a Libyan detention camp, and sold from one smuggler to another. 👉 https://searchandrescue.msf.org/humans-in-transit.html

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Dr Javid Abdelmoneim @intlpresident.msf.org · 22d

The Global Sumud Flotilla on its way to Gaza is an act of protest and a show of support for Palestinians enduring annihilation through Israel’s genocide.

I’m wishing the flotilla success. At @msf.org, we support this action of solidarity and humanity.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 23d

"I left home a year ago to take care of my three younger siblings. I was arrested in Tripoli, then sold and taken to a detention center," shared a 23-year-old woman from Nigeria with @msf.ca team back in 2017.

"I am scared. Can you tell me something that will help me?"

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 23d

Yesterday, a dinghy carrying 51 people, all from Sudan, sank in the Mediterranean Sea while fleeing from Libya to Greece. According to reports from Sudanese and Libyan media, the incident took place in the Libyan territorial waters.

ECRE @theecre.bsky.social · 23d

Greece has suspended asylum for people arriving from Libya.

❗Yet people fleeing war keep moving. On 14 September, 11 Sudanese died in a shipwreck.

Route de Tobrouk : 11 migrants soudanais périssent dans un naufrage au large de la Libye

Selon la presse soudanaise, 11 ressortissants soudanais sont morts dimanche au large de la Libye alors qu'ils tentaient de traverser la Méditerranée pour atteindre la Grèce. Ils étaient 51 migrants à ...

www.infomigrants.net

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