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Watch the Med humanitarian organization today launched a distress call for about 130 illegal immigrants who are at risk of drowning off the Libyan coast.
The Italian agency AKI quoted the humanitarian project "Arm Phone" of the non-governmental organization Watch the Med in a tweet on Twitter today, "There are 130 migrants in danger on board a rubber boat that is leaking and is about to sink and they need help."
And the "Arm Phone" project is meant to deliver the distress calls of the migration boats to the relevant authorities so that they can be rescued.
The International Organization for Migration announced in a report earlier this month that the number of migrants who died at sea while trying to reach Europe secretly doubled during the first half of this year, calling on countries to take urgent measures to curb this tragedy.
According to the report, the increase in deaths comes at a time of increasing interceptions of boats carrying migrants off the coast of North Africa, where civil organizations working in search and rescue face significant obstacles, as the majority of their boats are stuck in European ports due to administrative confiscation decisions and criminal proceedings against their crew members.
United Nations statistics indicate that thousands of people were killed while trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe from the Libyan shores, where illegal immigration has increased due to chaos and the spread of terrorism.
