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FIVE-DAY-OLD twins were among 3,000 people rescued from 20 rubber dinghies and several wooden boats in the Mediterranean sea.
The pair were saved by a search and rescue vessel run by Médecins Sans Frontiéres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams on Monday.
MSF’s Medical Team Leader onboard Dignity 1, Antonia Zemp, described how the twins were premature babies delivered at 8 months and were just five days old when rescued.
The mother was traveling alone. One of the boys was not well. He was vomiting, had hypothermia and non-reactive. After a first triage, our medical team decided to request an evacuation due to the fact that his health was so fragile that he would not have survived the long journey to Italy in our boat.
“We transferred both mother and twins to another vessel that could evacuate them to shore.”
Nearly 6,500 people risked their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, while a further 3,000 migrants were rescued from the Strait of Sicily yesterday during 30 different rescue missions.
MSF’s medical teams treated people who were exhausted and experiencing bloody diarrhea, dehydration, fever, hypothermia, and skin diseases.
Doctors Without Borders field coordinator Nicholas Papachrysostomou said:
This shows that the EU’s response to the crisis at and within its borders has failed to address the urgent humanitarian and protection needs of refugees and migrants.
More than 3,167 people have already lost their lives in the Mediterranean in 2016 according to IOM and UNHCR figures.
“The EU needs to put in place measures that will provide safe and legal alternatives for refugees and migrants to access the assistance and protection they are desperately seeking.”
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Quick ignore the enemy at the gates, look at the cute baby.
Quick ignore the infectious hate and fear mongers, luckily nothing cute about you!
Firstly let me say I do not hate anyone, I do not like that people are trying to take advantage of our welfare systems in Europe but I do hate the fact that people who have been paying into that system all their working lives are being told that there are cut backs and so they cannot get the benefits they were promised. I will also put on record my fear that sharia will destroy everything I hold dear, freedom, music, poetry etc . If you took the time look into it you might have some concerns yourself. I mentioned taqiyya which everyone should be aware of and then there there is the age of consent and the treatment of women and divine right of men to satisfy their sexual urges. Is it too much to ask that people look these things up before defending this system ?
Thanks a lot Obama/Hillary for turning Libya into a lawless, Islamic sh#thole and thanks to Merkel for giving an open invitation to anyone with enough cash to pay human traffickers to come on in.
WIKILEAKS Outlines How Hillary Clinton Did Bidding Of Her Saudi Masters & Turned Libya Into ISIS Hellhole.
Many more refugees heading for Europe.
“US and UK-Backed Saudi war on Yemen has created almost three million asylum seekers.
The forgotten war. Saudi backed ISIS have made considerable gains in Yemen in the past few months.
In 2015, the UNHCR classified over 2,800,000 Yemenis as asylum seekers, refugees, or other vulnerable ‘people of concern,’ and 500,000 children could be at risk of starvation as a result of the Saudi-led conflict.”
“The EU needs to put in place measures that will provide safe and legal alternatives for refugees and migrants to access the assistance and protection they are desperately seeking.”
They already do. If you are a Syrian refugee residing in a Turkish refugee camp you can apply for legal asylum in a number of EU countries through facilities made available in these camps.
The EU has no responsibility to offer an alternative.
Responsibility no, morally would be nice to help people who are obviously desperate. Or let them rot, whatever. I have my netflix, that’s all that matters. Also, Not sure how these people are getting the info they need about Turkey though… Or if Turkey are even trust worthy on this (or anything)
Netflix is overrated
It’s not Turkey who are doing it Garb. It’s EU representatives within the Turkish refugee camps that are handling asylum applications and vetting the applicants.
Morality doesn’t keep the lights on unfortunately. Where are we going to house millions of migrants who don’t speak the languages of Europe, have poor educational backgrounds and come from a culture which is in many respects 150+ years behind our own?
That’s right, we’ll throw them into the cheap areas where there’s already excessively high levels of unemployment, crime and social issues.
damn newborn baby migrants, coming over here and stealing out cuteness
Jason, the reality of applying through unhcr is that people can be waiting for 10 years. People in camps are prioritised while most refugees from Syria are urban refugees. If the surrounding host countries legally permitted work then that might be a significant removal of the reasons for travelling to Europe.
This is supposed to be a feel good story and were supposed to go aw! How many God help us dependents is Europe supposed to take on. The numbers will never end as long as Europe continues this absolute folly.
This isnt about Syrian refugees…its about African migrants, most of whom will stay in Europe.
You’d rather they were left to drown to death, eah Marg. Two fewer muslims coming here wearing burkinis and paying to a different god. Right?
I am totally sick of bleeding hearts making excuses under a humanitarian flag about the invasion of Europe. Those fleeing war are not risking their lives by crossing The Mediterranean, only those who can afford to pay traffickers huge amounts are getting here and most of them are dodging conscription leaving the elderly to fend for themselves and without an army at that. When sharia takes hold it will be too late to release what you have promoted being unleashed on the rest of us. Please just simply Google the word “taqiyya” before you defend the happy smiling people you know from a different culture.
“Jesus Phil would you lighten up. The most hateful, negative and very vitriolic person is you. ”
You lied about a man who lost his family in tragic circumstance, saying he did it all because he wanted his teeth fixed. You claimed that the photo of his dead son lying on a beach was staged (a claim rubbished by every reputable source and only even proffered by right-wing loons) and you did because you’re a hateful xenophobic moron who is desperately trying to justify your hate for anyone different from yourself.
Even now you’re quick to the personal abuse without one single paltry attempt to back up the unmitigated sh__t you post about immigrants and refugees day in and day out on here.
You don’t do facts, you don’t do references, you’re incapable of accepting you’re wrong even when it’s very clearly proven that you are.
You’re an empty vessel, you parrot far-right talking points from fringe sources and collapse in a flash of personal invective any time anyone challenges you. You are genuinely one of the worse people I’ve ever encountered on a web comments section and that’s saying something.
Yeah but Phil, underneath it all you love me, you really love. Lol
No I think you’re an horrible excuse for a human being and an example of all that is wrong with this country.
Phil you spend a lot of time clogging up my feed here you useless tosspot. Fcuk off and tend to your gardenias or whatever it is you do when you’re not talking billix and frothing at the mouth, head spinning and eyes bulging with righteous rage! Go on. Pi$$ of!
No problem with people coming to Europe or helping people in need.
My problem is people coming by water, how many lives have been lost due to the water route ?
How many more is it going to take before the tick fookers elites, get it into their heads, that allowing this access route is dangerous.
Australia did this and it stopped needless deaths.
You’d rather they walk to Europe because there’s no risk associated with that at all, right?
So Phil, you’re happy to see more people drown, is it ?
Happy to add more death to the disastrous death toll, is it ?
You’re an embarrassment Phil.
@chris. Yes he would actually, how else could he exorcise his compassion and his bleeding heart. He needs to feel for these people so he can show us all just how morally superior he is. What a guy!
@chris, how would you propose to send boats back in the same way as Australia?
“So Phil, you’re happy to see more people drown, is it ?”
No. I am happy to see the navies of the EU member states saving more people.
“Happy to add more death to the disastrous death toll, is it ?”
No. I am happy to see the navies of the EU member states saving more people.
“You’re an embarrassment Phil.”
And you’re an idiot.
“@chris. Yes he would actually, how else could he exorcise his compassion and his bleeding heart.”
No. I wouldn’t, Marge. I am happy to see them being saved.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with being compassionate towards people less fortunate than I.
“He needs to feel for these people so he can show us all just how morally superior he is. What a guy!”
What’s wrong with feeling for the plight of people like these?
It’s telling of what a horrible person you are that you see compassion as a bad thing and don’t feel for them,
Funny coincidence. I just happened to watch this rather appropriate video yesterday.
I agree that the media often manipulates people with emotive language and photos, but I just can’t take that woman seriously after seeing her videos titled “Feminism is for Idiots and Uglies” and “Degerate women and their abortions”. Way to sully a very valid argument, that the media is often very biased, with such other silly rubbish.
Well I can’t comment on those other videos because I haven’t watched them myself. Personally, I prefer to judge each individual point on its own merits, rather than what the person making it has said or done in the past. The Nazis were very ahead of their time with regards to their anti-smoking campaigns and animal rights laws for example. I wouldn’t say the credibility of those things were diminished just because of other things that happened in Nazi Germany at the time.
These people are obviously quite desperate or else they would not put themselves and their children through these awful risks
Desperate to find a sucker European country that will take them in and give them everything for nothing.
What it is to be a parent doesn’t change no matter what culture you’re from. And I just can’t believe that any parent would involve their children in such risk unless they felt there was absolutely no choice but to do so
Yes, they’re just lazy freeloaders risking everything for the dole. It takes real freeloading attitude to make that super dangerous journey for the chance of better life for them and families. Makes sense. I bet they are all claim culture champions too, and moan when can’t watch Netflix cos the Internet is slow on a Sunday evening. Hate those first world winging wannabes.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/608358/Ter-Apel-Migrants-Refugee-Netherlands-Crisis-Croatia-Hungary-European-Union Migrants complain about slow internet.
Well little Ayan kurdis dad risked his entire family so he could get a new set of teeth. Left a flat and a job in turkey, was not desperate but he obviously felt OK with the risk. I do t believe it’s desperation at all, it’s calculated risk for a super reward, life on easy street.
The migrant paradox; simultaneously taking jobs while also on the dole!
“Well little Ayan kurdis dad risked his entire family so he could get a new set of teeth. Left a flat and a job in turkey, was not desperate but he obviously felt OK with the risk. I do t believe it’s desperation at all, it’s calculated risk for a super reward, life on easy street.”
You really are vile. You’d lie about a man who lost his family just to further your own greedy xenophobic agenda.
The family stayed in Syria for much of the beginning of the Civil war, having moved around to avid it the eventually moved to Turkey, moved back to Syria to their home town and then once more returned to Turkey when that was attacked by ISIS. Their original aim was to join other family members in Canada, but that application was rejected. The tragic trip was nothing to do with teeth, which was a claim made by a right-wing Australian politician and parroted with much mirth by people like you who are happy to swallow whatever anti-foreigner s__t is fed to you by trash sites like Breitbart. You too were among the chorus of paranoid right-wingers claiming the photo of Alan on the beach was faked too, were you not?
What was the reasoning for their application being rejected Phil?
From my memory, the Canadian government rejected the application on the basis that the required forms from the Turkish government confirming the family’s status as refugees in Turkey did not exist.
I would think that an official refugee working in Turkey would have the correct paperwork, given the complicated procedures involved in securing a working permit in Turkey as a Syrian refugee (as evident by the fact that less than 1% of Syrian refugees in Turkey possess one).
Not faked but restaged to get just the right shot. The father survived, his wife and children drowned. I think most fathers would have saved at least one child or died trying. He should hang his head in shame for being responsible for the death of his entire family. The source of the “teeth” story was his own sister in Canada. But you know that, just doesn’t fit with your narrative.
Don’t waste your time here at unmoderated racist central.
Range Rover, rabid racism rules on The Journal.
Utter Bulls__t, Marge.
“I was doing it for their better future, for the kids, for him, for the whole family”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34149755
“I am the one who should be at blame. I blame myself because my brother does not have money. I sent him the money to pay the smuggler. If I didn’t send him the money, those people still (would be) alive.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09/04/b-c-aunt-of-drowned-syrian-boys-continuing-fight-to-bring-family-to-canada_n_8091596.html
The teeth is a misleading story waved about by hateful right-wingers like you to diminish the plight of people like these, painting them as greedy idiots, to make people like you feel better about your lack of humanity, compassion and about your own selfish xenophobic self interest.
“Not faked but restaged to get just the right shot.”
You really are a piece of work. That nonsense, a claim not made by any reputable source and championed by arch-c__t Katie Hopkins, was utterly debunked.
I defy you to find one verifiable non-nutjob source which supports your claim it was staged.
You really are a spectacularly hateful idiot. Not only do you belief this crap, you deny evidence rubbishing it and continue to spread it.
The only way to avoid this being repeated is to set up regular air shuttle services from several north African airports…..free flights of course.
Out of 3000 rescued yesterday 82 were women, 13 were under 10 years old, and a further 110 were aged 10 to 17, the majority of people rescued are male economic migrants
Sterilise them all.
Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses.
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