On the morning of 12 December, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support rescued a boat in distress in the Mediterranean sea, within the international waters of the Libyan SAR zone. On board were 34 people, including one unaccompanied child. Before the rescue, at about 1:20 a.m. on Thursday 12 December, two boats – one […]

75 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, disembarked in the port of Vibo Valentia early this morning at 1:15am. The people rescued had been brought to safety in two separate operations carried out on Thursday 28 November, in international waters in the Maltese SAR zone. “We have completed the disembarkation of […]

On Sunday 17 November, at 4:10 p.m., 49 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship Life Support disembarked in Ancona, Italy. They were rescued on 12 November from a boat in distress that was identified directly from the bridge of Life Support, in the international waters of the Maltese search and rescue (SAR) zone. […]

For 10 months, EMERGENCY has been operating in Ukraine in the Kramatorsk area, Donetsk Oblast, one of the areas most affected by the war. As part of the project titled “Restoration of Health Services in the Donetsk Region for the War-Affected Population”, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), EMERGENCY has created a […]

EMERGENCY has begun health activities in the Gaza Strip in a field clinic set up in the so-called ‘humanitarian area’ of al-Mawasi, in support of a Palestinian organisation called Culture & Free Thought Association (CFTA). “While we are waiting to build our own clinic, we decided to work in support of a local, independent non-governmental […]

Today, Monday 4 November, 72 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s ship Life Support disembarked at the port of Livorno, Italy. The survivors were rescued on 31 October in two separate operations, both in the international waters of the Maltese SAR zone, in the central Mediterranean Sea. Both boats were reported by the NGO Alarm Phone. After […]

On the afternoon of Wednesday 23 October, 11 people injured in an explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, were brought to EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in the city. The explosion occurred at around 14:00 local time in the busy Pamir Cinema district (PD1), at a second-hand clothes market. “So far, we have received 11 wounded people at the […]

Joint Statement: Tunisia is Not a Place of Safety for People Rescued at Sea In view of the rampant human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia, especially those who are Black; Tunisia’s lack of an asylum system; the Tunisian government’s crackdown on civil society, judicial independence, and the media; and the […]

There are dozens of dead and wounded following last night’s military operation in al-Mawasi, Gaza, west of Khan Younis. In the area, defined by the parties as a humanitarian zone, thousands of displaced people arriving from places that have been evacuated – now covering about 86% of Gaza [1] — are concentrated in tent camps. […]