170 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel Life Support disembarked in Ravenna, Italy today. The disembarkation process ended at 2 p.m. “After more than four days at sea, we arrived in Ravenna for the disembarkation of the rescued people, an operation that took place smoothly and in cooperation with the local authorities,” says […]

During the night between Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 August, EMERGENCY NGO’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, carried out two more rescues in the Maltese SAR area, rescuing a further 101 people, in addition to the 158 already rescued during this mission. On the instructions of the Italian authorities, Life Support sailed to Lampedusa […]

After several months of waiting to obtain humanitarian permits, EMERGENCY has entered the Gaza Strip to provide healthcare support to a population devastated by war.During this period, EMERGENCY has been working to define the project and establish coordination with UN agencies and other partners in the area. “The possibility of bringing aid to the Strip […]

Before dawn this morning, Life Support, EMERGENCY NGO’s search and rescue vessel, rescued 96 people from two boats in distress in international waters in the Libyan SAR zone, during two different rescue operations. A third rescue operation of a further 62 people was carried out later this morning in international waters in the Maltese SAR […]

At 10:15am today, Tuesday 13 August, 64 people rescued by EMERGENCY’s search and rescue ship, Life Support, disembarked in the port of Ortona. They had been rescued on Friday 9 August in two separate operations, both located in the international waters of the Maltese SAR region, in the central Mediterranean Sea. Their boats were small, unsuitable for […]

At 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, 1 August, the 41 rescued people on board EMERGENCY’s ship Life Support completed disembarkation procedures at the port of Naples. They had been rescued in the early hours of 29 July, in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The 41 shipwrecked men and boys, including three unaccompanied children, […]

In the early morning of 29 July, EMERGENCY’s search and rescue vessel, Life Support, rescued 41 people from a boat in distress in the international waters of the Libyan SAR region. The small, overcrowded fibreglass boat was sighted from Life Support’s bridge just before 3:00 a.m. The rescue was completed when the 41 people, including three unaccompanied […]

Rome, Italy, 19 July 2024 – Under the European Union’s complaint mechanisms,¹ the European Commission (EC) has failed in its commitment to asses, within 12 months, separate complaints to investigate Italian law and practices which obstructs search and rescue activities in the Central Mediterranean.   In July 2023, five leading non-governmental organisations (NGOs) – the […]