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Gaza Police Vow To End İllegal Migration

18.09.2014 16:32

The Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip is currently looking into means of fighting illegal migration from the blockaded enclave after hundreds of undocumented Gazan migrants went missing after their boat was rammed off the coast of Malta.

The Palestinian Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip is currently looking into means of fighting illegal migration from the blockaded enclave after hundreds of undocumented Gazan migrants went missing after their boat was rammed off the coast of Malta.



"Illegal migration from Gaza to Europe through Egypt is going to end soon. The ministry is now keen to end such clandestine activity by arresting traffickers," ministry spokesman in Gaza Iyad al-Bozom told Anadolu Agency.



The detained traffickers are suspected of facilitating illegal voyages to Europe in coordination with Egyptian accomplices, said al-Bozom.



Describing incidents of illegal migration from Gaza as "isolated and limited," he said the flow of undocumented migrants from the coastal strip did not represent "a trend."



Earlier this week, at least 15 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip drowned off the coast of Alexandria after their boat sank while en route to Italy.



Another boat said to have been carrying more than 400 illegal migrants, mostly Gazan refugees, sank off the coast of Malta last week.



Accounts from survivors suggested that human traffickers had intentionally sunk the boat by ramming it after the would-be migrants refused to board a smaller vessel.



The boat set out from the Egyptian port of Damietta on September 6, according to survivors.



A well-placed Palestinian government source told AA that dozens of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip had recently left the blockaded enclave for next-door Egypt in hopes of making it to Europe by sea.



The source also said that the number of Palestinians seeking to emigrate had increased in the wake of Israel's recent military onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which left over 2,150 Gazans dead, 11,000 injured and thousands of homes destroyed.



Al-Bozom, however, dismissed this assertion.



"The number of youths seeking to emigrate from Gaza illegally is small and unrelated to Israeli aggression," he said.



According to the official, some would-be migrants managed to obtain official European visas and departed Gaza legally via the Rafah crossing with Egypt.



By Nour Abu Aisha



englishnews@aa.com.tr



www.aa.com.tr/en - Gazze



 
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