Alarm Phone and 31 other organisations demand the immediate ending of the systematic obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue (SAR) efforts by the Italian state!!

🆘 ~60 people at severe risk of drowning, south of #Crete!

We are in contact with a group that is escaping from #Libya. The people are urgently calling for help. We have informed the authorities and urge them to engage without delay.

🆘 in the Central Med! We are in contact with ~45 people who fled from #Benghazi, #Libya. After 4 days at sea they've no food or water left & need urgent assistance. We don't have their exact GPS position & ask authorities to locate them and launch a SAR operation immediately!