Another Humanitarian Disaster Brought to You by the Clinton Cabal
Refugee crisis: Five-day-old baby twins rescued alongside 6,500 migrants off Libyan coast in Mediterranean Sea
Aid workers evacuate babies and mother to shore for emergency medical care
One of the five-day-old twins rescued by the MSF vessel the Dignity I off the coast of Libya on 29 August MSF
Twin babies born on the treacherous refugee route through Libya are among thousands of asylum seekers rescued in just one day on the Mediterranean Sea.
The five-day old siblings had been born prematurely during their mother’s journey to Europe and were found packed on a dangerously overcrowded boat with hundreds of other migrants.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said one of the twins was “desperately ill” and that both infants were evacuated to shore with their mother for emergency care.
One of the overcrowded wooden boats in rescue operations off Libya on 29 August (AP)
Antonia Zemp, the medical team leader on board the charity’s rescue boat, said the woman had been travelling alone.
“One of the boys was not well,” she added. “He was vomiting, had hypothermia and non-reactive.
“Our medical team decided to request an evacuation due to the fact that his health was so fragile that he would not have survived the long journey to Italy in our boat.”
They were among at least 6,500 migrants rescued while attempting the deadly crossing to Italy on Monday, in a concerning spike for humanitarian groups attempting to prevent disasters at sea.
MSF assisted the rescue of 3,000 people off the Libyan coast, taking 435 men women and children on to its Dignity I vessel and distributing 700 life jackets to those drifting at sea.
Those rescued including 13 children under the age of five, 110 minors – mostly unaccompanied teenagers – and 82 women.
A man clings to a boat during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean, yesterday (AP)
