Rome (AP) – a humanitarian ship with 64 rescued migrants was Thursday stranded in the Mediterranean Sea once Italy and Malta refused their entry into port and people were crowded on deck, while a storm was coming. The refusal sets the stage for a new confrontation in the region, which is only resolved if European Governments agree to asylum-seekers. The vessel was near the Italian island of Lampedusa, said Carlotta Weibl, spokeswoman for the German humanitarian organization is-Eye on Thursday. “Malta says that we can not enter into its waters and is unlikely to obtain permission from Italy,” he added. Be-Eye, Alan Kurdi, boat rescued migrants on Wednesday near Libya, when I was looking for a boat with 50 migrants who is missing since Monday and other 40 migrants missing since last week.” There is little chance that they are alive,”said Weibl.Entre 64 rescued migrants were five children and a newborn baby, said the group, but Weibl said that the vessel is too small for so many people and some slept on deck when I started rain and a storm was approaching. The Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, reported on Wednesday that the German vessel should “go to Hamburg”, but Weibl explained that “it is a trip of 3-4 weeks. We don’t have food or water, so that’s completely impossible”. Similar clashes in recent months were resolved when other members of the EU agreed to receive the migrants, but many of them are still stranded in centres for migrants in Malta and Lampedusa.
Alan Kurdi ship bears the name of a Kurdish child of three years who drowned died at sea in 2015 when he fled with his family from the war in Syria. The image of her lifeless body toured the world and provoked a wave of solidarity with migrants.
However, since mood in Europe has turned against aid to migrants. Weibl said that, for the moment, Alan Kurdi is the only humanitarian ship that operates in the Mediterranean because many Governments have refused to vessels operating permit.
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