Over 2,500 migrants dead or missing in Mediterranean in 2023, UN Says https://t.co/vXlJEMdOLQ
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More than 2,500
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...so far in 2023, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees official said Thursday.
"By September 24, over 2,500 people were accounted as dead or missing in 2023 alone," Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the UNHCR New York office, told the U.N. Security Council.
That number marked a large increase over the 1,680 dead or missing
"Lives are also lost on land, away from public attention," she added.
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violations at every step," said Menikdiwela.
In total, some 186,000 people arrived by sea in southern Europe from January to Sept. 24, landing in Italia, Greece, Spain, Cyprus and Malta.
The majority, over 130,000 people, arrived in Italia, marking an increase of 83% compared to the same period in 2022.
As for departure points, between January and August of this year it is estimated that more than 102,000 refugees and
An estimated 31,000 people were rescued at sea or intercepted and disembarked in Tunisia, and 10,600 in Libya, Menikdiwela said.