This afternoon, the Sea-Watch rescue vessel Aurora rescued 32 people from the Miskar gas platform in the central Mediterranean, where they had been stranded since Saturday, 1 March 2025. Despite the imminent emergency, the informed European authorities had not initiated rescue operations, even though the people were stranded in international waters on the border of…
On Saturday, March 1 2025, the Watch The Med Alarm Phone network issued an alert concerning a serious case of distress: 32 people were reported to be on the Tunisian gas platform MISKAR, located in the Gulf of Gabès, in international waters and in the Maltese SAR zone. The people reported to Alarm phone that…
On the night of 22 February, we brought 41 people safely on board the SEA-EYE 4. They had been traveling on an overcrowded boat in high waves. The Italian authorities directed us to the harbor in Naples, and the crossing there took three days. After rescuing 41 people on Saturday night, we spent almost three…
The sea rescue organizations Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch have launched a joint rescue operation in the central Mediterranean. With the rescue ship Sea-Eye 4, a crew of 28 members of both organizations is on its way to one of the deadliest borders in the world. One week before the German parliamentary elections, the two German organizations…
Recent reports have revealed that several activists and journalists critical of Italy’s migration policies have been targeted with advanced spyware. Notably, human rights advocate David Yambio, civil search and rescue organizer Luca Casarini, and Libyan activist Husam El Gomati received notifications from tech companies like Apple and WhatsApp, alerting them to potential spyware attacks. The…
