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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 7h

12 hours. That's how long the Italian authorities knew about this boat before our crew reached the survivors. 12 hours in which people died. 6 people, including children, are still missing. What happened in that time? 👇

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/09/2026

All 28 survivors finally reached Lampedusa & disembarked safely. The 2 dead bodies were transferred to the Italian authorities. Our thoughts are with the survivors, the deceased & their loved ones. We will keep fighting for safe passages!

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/09/2026

At least 6 people, including 3 children, are reportedly missing. Lampedusa has finally been assigned to us as a place of safety. Our Aurora crew is on its way there with the 28 survivors of the horrific shipwreck and 2 dead bodies. 👉 tinyurl.com/arjc9jak

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/09/2026

🔴 At least 2 people are dead, including a child. 28 survived because our Aurora crew rescued them from a sinking dinghy and the Hasdrubal gas platform in the morning of 29.09. Our anger and grief are almost impossible to put into words. People have died again. The EU is guilty.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 28/09/2026

Yesterday our ship Aurora and our Seabird plane reached a rubber boat with 13 people on board, signaled by @alarmphone.bsky.social south of Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard intervened and brought all the people safely to land.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 22/09/2026

We do not follow the EU's values compass. Because that would mean ignoring international law. Over the past two days, three NGO ships rescued 102 people at sea. Here's what our aircrew witnessed. 🧵

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 17/09/2026

🔴 Detention suspended - our Sea-Watch 5 sails to rescue again! After supporting six people in distress in August, Italian authorities wanted to block us for 45 days. After 33 days, the court in Naples suspended the order! Another round, another win in court! ➡️https://tinyurl.com/4ke5tt5b

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 10/09/2026

Interceptions, communication manipulation and persistent failure by authorities were the main observations of our aircraft between January and June this year. While NGOs are being detained, the EU & its accomplices are continuing their violence in the Central Mediterranean.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 09/09/2026

In Malta's Search and Rescue Region, "rescue" stands for ignorance. Most people who risk drowning here don't get saved - they get kidnapped by Libyan militias and disappear. Yesterday, Seabird 3 spotted a boat with 17 people in distress, and everyone knew what would come next.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 08/09/2026

Traditional German values, made in Ramstein: for one week, rival Libyan forces are brought to the table — as long as it serves Western interests. First reconciled, then trained, then patrolled, then the dead are fished out of the sea. Just business as usual.

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Joint LNA-GNU Libyan military delegation visits Ramstein air base - Libya Security Monitor

On 21 August, AFRICOM reported that a joint eastern (LNA) and western (GNU) Libyan military delegation had visited Ramst

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 04/09/2026

AMA, the boat of NGO Sailidarity, rescued 4 people from the Didon platform yesterday. States fall short; civil society shows up. States stop watching; our aircraft don't. We wish the survivors all the best for their future!

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 04/09/2026

German Interior Minister Dobrindt @bmi.bund.de wants to make people disappear! Yes, you heard right: people are to be forced into countries they may have never even been to. Today he's meeting other EU ministers in Copenhagen to discuss this: tinyurl.com/2vkufmhr

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The return of the Rwanda plan – rights concerns and past failures

Five EU states are negotiating with Kigali to host rejected asylum seekers under Brussels' new return law. Rights groups warn of abuses, and past deals delivered only a handful of deportees at huge co...

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 02/09/2026

Germany won't recognize the Taliban as a legitimate government for fear of public disgrace, but WILL set up a visa desk for them. Bold strategy – welcoming a terror regime with open arms as long as they lend a hand to German authorities.

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Taliban-Delegation bereitet Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan vor

Berlin: Seit drei Tagen hält sich eine Taliban-Delegation in Deutschland auf, um Rückführungen nach Afghanistan vorzuber

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 31/08/2026

A live show of Europe's brutal migration regime. Yesterday, our Seabird 3 witnessed a distress case, and while @sos-humanity.bsky.social's ship Humanity1 was in position and could have rescued about 10 people from a rubber boat, a Libyan RHIB got there first.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 31/08/2026

Our aircraft Seabird 3 caught @frontex.bsky.social red-handed🚨Yesterday, its aircraft EAGLE6 sent a Mayday Relay for a wooden boat in danger. NGO ship Solidaire responded – but minutes later, a so-called Libyan coastguard asset called Frontex asking for the exact position.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 27/08/2026

🔴 Shots fired & people in the water. The so-called Libyan coastguard, backed by the EU, opened fire toward NGO ship Louise Michel - instead of recovering the two people who had gone overboard.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 26/08/2026

Exclusive: audio we're releasing for the first time. "Go back there, or I swear to god, I shoot you." A rescue crew, threatened at sea while people were intercepted. Silence is the EU strategy: Don't give it to them.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 24/08/2026

Berlin & Rome are fighting like kids. The "historic" CEAS asylum pact has been in force for 10 weeks and is already falling apart. Embarrassing for you, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, but no surprise. A pact built on lockdown instead of solidarity won't hold. What's this about? 👇

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 23/08/2026

Our crew rescues 6 people. Minutes later, a Libyan boat aims a gun at them. Days later, they're documenting 8 bodies in the water. Italy's response: Sea-Watch 5 gets detained for 45 days. Plus a €7,500 fine. sea-watch.org/en/after-gun-threat-and-discovery-of-corpses-italy-detains-sea-watch-5

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 21/08/2026

Europe's solution to drowning people: pay someone else to make them disappear. ~60 people fleeing Libya were stuck on a rubber boat today, water pouring in. Our plane Seabird 3 flew to scene. Before the Tunisian navy showed up, Frontex dodged their legal obligations:

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 20/08/2026

22,500+ people rescued from the Mediterranean and Rome and Berlin are arguing about who pays for humans who had to endure unimaginable horrors like it's a bar tab. 👉 tinyurl.com/bt8w4xhj

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 18/08/2026

Last night, the 6 people rescued by the #SeaWatch5 disembarked in Naples, the distant port assigned to us by Italy. 4 days of sailing time were taken away from rescue efforts, while at the same time 14 bodies were found – still abandoned at sea. We send strength to all survivors!

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 17/08/2026

We have no words for what we saw this weekend. 14 people. 14 human beings who hoped to find safety in Europe. Instead, we found their lifeless bodies floating in the Mediterranean 👉 tinyurl.com/mrxy9m43

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14 Bodies Found in the Mediterranean • Sea-Watch e.V.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 17/08/2026

We are happy to announce that yesterday evening the people disembarked safely in Lampedusa. We wish all of them a prosperous life in safety and dignity and applaud their courage to fight against Fortress Europe!

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 16/08/2026

Today, our rescue vessel Aurora2 saved 36 people in distress from an overcrowded boat. The Port of Safety assigned by 🇮🇹 is unreachable due to limited fuel. The ship is almost in Lampedusa & the survivors, among them a baby, need to reach safety ASAP. Let us enter Lampedusa!

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 15/08/2026

Today, our Seabird aircrew spotted 3 dead bodies at sea near a capsized rubber boat. Yesterday, Sea-Watch 5 found 8 bodies in advanced decomposition. The Central Mediterranean is a state-led cemetery. We mourn the dead. Let's remember: Another world is possible. End the killing.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/08/2026

This is for the many Libyan vessels that have been circling not only our Sea-Watch 5 but also our Aurora over the past 24 hours: Why are you so obsessed with us?! 🧵

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/08/2026

Today, our Sea-Watch 5 crew sailed to identify 11 bodies, floating in the Mediterranean Sea. We joined the efforts by @sosmediterranee.org's aircrew, who spotted the deceased with their aircraft Albatross.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/08/2026

🔴 People in the water! Last night, we observed how 6 people were forced overboard in complete darkness & left behind. Luckily, our Sea-Watch 5 crew could rescue everyone in time, although unidentified violent actors kept harassing survivors & crew. (1/5)

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 12/08/2026

EU leaders love talking ABOUT migration but never listen to the people who are actually forced to migrate. In The Cotonou Manifesto survivors of border violence raise their voices. Now it's your turn to read their call for the freedom to move:🔗 tinyurl.com/59tv6k45 👉 @refugeesinlibya.bsky.social

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OUR BODIES ARE NOT YOUR BORDERS — The Cotonou Manifesto for Freedom of Movement

Authored and led by survivors, the Cotonou Manifesto for Freedom of Movement confronts the global border regime that turns human mobility into a crime. Emerging from the Migration Village at the World...

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 04/08/2026

Breaking: Libya is, once again, not safe. Militias tear through Surman's streets as people try to shelter. In other news, water is wet and the EU's migration deals remain unbothered by facts 👉 www.telesurenglish.net/armed-clashe...

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 31/07/2026

Images from Ceuta or Lampedusa say more about political storytelling than about migration itself. What is truly overwhelmed is Europe's commitment to human rights. t.co/F8uEcdSDF4

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https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/72714/ceuta-more-bodies-recovered-as-arrivals-and-deaths-continue-to-rise

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 30/07/2026

East Libyan officials brag of deporting 100,000+ people under racist laws targeting Sudanese, Eritrean, Ethiopian and Somali nationals. Yet the EU seeks deeper cooperation, fully aware of these abuses. The money & recognition will fuel these abuses.

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Eastern Libyan authorities claim they have deported more than 100,000 irregular migrants

The eastern Libyan authorities, based in Benghazi, say they have now deported more than 117,000 irregular migrants of va

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/07/2026

75 Jahre Schutz für Geflüchtete. 56 Jahre #Dobrindt. Nur einer wird gebraucht.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/07/2026

A report using Sea-Watch data reveals: almost 100 vessels are operated by 11 Libyan militias in the central med, which the EU, Italy, and other external actors gifted. The EU-financed militias are more numerous and violent than ever.

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Quante navi ha davvero la Libia nel Mediterraneo centrale

Undici milizie libiche “si sono fatte la barca”: 97 in tutto. In parte donazioni di Paesi stranieri, soprattutto Ue, in

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 27/07/2026

Interceptions in Eastern Libya are rising and funded by the EU. Rumors say those intercepted are forced into conscription for genocidal RSF militias in Sudan. Whether in the EU or Libya, racial capitalism is the root cause. migration-control.info/en/blog/haft…

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Haftar's Libya as an EU Proxy

Haftar now cooperating with EU. Raids before departure. Interceptions far out at sea. Forced returns to an unsafe countr

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 24/07/2026

It's embarrassing how politicians lose it over rescues that don't match their absurd idea of emergencies but when 150+ people die because no one is there to rescue them for 25 days, they couldn't care less. Only 38 people survived. tinyurl.com/yvwa93u6

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Atlantic migration: MSF shocked by fatal crossing that claims 150 lives

After 25 days at sea, a boat arrived in Mauritania carrying just 38 survivors from 190 people

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 23/07/2026

The rescue of human lives becomes the subject of a right-wing smear campaign. Selectively chosen video footage doesn't change the facts of what happened at sea: 90 people rescued, all authorities informed. Here is the full picture: sea-watch.org/en/the-far-r...

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The far right turns saving lives into a smear campaign • Sea-Watch e.V.

On May 11, Sea-Watch 5’s crew rescued a boat in distress in international waters and brought everyone aboard to safety, keeping authorities informed throughout the operation. A smear campaign currentl...

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 17/07/2026

The ICC confirmed all 17 charges against El-Hishri today. The case is going to trial! El-Hishri was a senior member of the Libyan militia SDF/RADA & headed parts of Mitiga Prison in Tripoli – where people on the move are subjected to murder, torture & sexual violence.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 16/07/2026

Fortress Europe, proud yet? East Libya is now exposed to what Western Libya has endured for years: interceptions and deaths mounting up. One boat was stranded 14 days at sea & on Tuesday, 50 people could have died in one incident. The EU ♥️ violence & copies it's playbook east 👇

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 14/07/2026

More than 230 people. At least 7 boats. 48 hours. That's how many were dragged back to Libya this weekend alone – 4 boats intercepted from Sirte, 3 from Tobruk. Back to detention, back to violence and extortion. This is what EU-funded "migration management" looks like.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 12/07/2026

We have now disembarked safely after rescuing 52 people. Italy forced survivors to endure a four-day journey to Marina di Carrara: this endangers our guests and means four days without rescues. This cruel policy must stop! Our guests' determination serves as an inspiration to us.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 10/07/2026

Wake up: Frontex actively OBSTRUCTS rescue operations. On June 25th, our ship Aurora responded to a mayday relay call. But the Frontex aircraft repeatedly ignored us. Why? Because Frontex didn’t want a rescue. It wanted an interception by Libyan militias.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 09/07/2026

Sea-Watch 5 is back at sea after the attack by Libyan militias in May. It's already rescued 52 people: 40 yesterday, 12 today – a pregnant woman needs urgent medical care. On average, 8 people die in the Mediterranean per day. Instead of organizing rescue, Italy keeps us away:

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 08/07/2026

Another handshake in Benghazi: Italy’s foreign intelligence chief Caravelli meets Saddam Haftar to expand cooperation, while people keep drowning trying to escape Libya. Italy and the EU keep outsourcing border violence to third states - and their criminals.

agenzianova.com

Libya: Saddam Haftar receives an AISE delegation led by General Caravelli in Benghazi

Libya: Saddam Haftar receives an AISE delegation led by General Caravelli in Benghazi. Read all the latest news on Agenzia Nova.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 07/07/2026

🔴 Sea-Watch 5 is back in action: On July 3, our Sea-Watch 5 set sail again in the central Mediterranean for the first time since being fired upon in May. We have also filed an urgent appeal in Berlin: The government must protect Sea-Watch 5.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 04/07/2026

No matter what you believe, or if you believe at all, one truth remains: allowing people to drown is a betrayal of everything we hold sacred. With the Pope visiting Lampedusa today, our so-called Christian-democratic governments should take note: confess and find your way back to grace.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 29/06/2026

“Everyone has the right to seek a better life.” Migration is not the challenge of our time. Extreme inequality is. Fortress Europe turns race and class injustice into border policy. But human rights must apply to everyone regardless of passport, income or place of birth.

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Threat of Criminalisation Again Hangs Over Humanitarian Rescue Operations

For now, the captain of the Sea-Watch 5 has been allowed to leave Italy and return home to the Netherlands.

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