280 migrants are on board a Libyan coast guard ship in the landing area opposite the port of Tripoli, after the Libyan authorities refused to grant them permission to disembark because they considered the port of Tripoli unsafe.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the fate of these migrants remains unclear, especially as fighting intensifies in Tripoli.
Migrantnews.net reported that a Libyan coast guard patrol rescued 280 migrants on average last Thursday and moved them to Libya.
The International Organization for Migration issued a statement saying that the Tripoli authorities refused to grant these migrants permission to disembark at their port, saying that it was not safe to receive them after being subjected to violent shelling that prevented them from landing.
These migrants remained stranded on the Coast Guard, after spending more than 72 hours on average, suffering from hunger, thirst, and exhaustion.
Staff at the UN port in Tripoli delivered food rations and drinking water to stranded migrants aboard the Coast Guard, just before the curfew imposed by the authorities to combat the spread of the new Coronavirus.
Many rescuers fear that the battles in Libya and the closure of European countries by their ports as a result of the Corona outbreak will lead to an increase in the number of shipwrecked migrants, as well as their return to detention centers in Libya with all kinds of human rights violations against them.
The next stage appears to be ambiguous for these migrants. Most of the major rescue ships such as Ocean Viking and Sea Watch have suspended their operations due to the pandemic, and obstruction of travel operations around the world has led UN organizations concerned with resettling the most vulnerable migrants to stop their operations, even ships.
The European naval operation concerned with monitoring the Libyan coast to prevent the arrival of weapons there seems to avoid the tracks attracting the majority migrant boats, in addition to all this, Italy have closed its ports in the face of rescue ships as part of measures to combat the pandemic prevalent on its soil.
Despite repeated appeals, the returns of migrants to detention centers in Libya continued, with a number of them reported missing during the past months, as well as sometimes being confined to centers run by smuggling and human trafficking gangs.
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