Colonel Haytham Dennaoui, Commander of the Lebanese Navy, during a presentation on the fight against illegal migration at sea.
The number of people undertaking perilous journeys by sea from Lebanon to Europe has more than doubled in 2022, for the second year in a row.But the death count from those journeys has multiplied in recent days. More than 70 people died when their irregular boat sank Thursday off the coast of the port city of Tartous, in northwestern Syria. What are Lebanese authorities doing to address this phenomenon? That was the subject of this article, published last July, which we suggest you reread today.One juicy business is flourishing in Lebanon thanks to the crisis: human smuggling by boat. As living conditions worsen, more and more people in the land of the cedars are seeking to emigrate illegally by sea. Although it began to grow in 2012 following the war in Syria, the phenomenon has intensified in tandem with the economic and social...
The number of people undertaking perilous journeys by sea from Lebanon to Europe has more than doubled in 2022, for the second year in a row.But the death count from those journeys has multiplied in recent days. More than 70 people died when their irregular boat sank Thursday off the coast of the port city of Tartous, in northwestern Syria. What are Lebanese authorities doing to address this phenomenon? That was the subject of this article, published last July, which we suggest you reread today.One juicy business is flourishing in Lebanon thanks to the crisis: human smuggling by boat. As living conditions worsen, more and more people in the land of the cedars are seeking to emigrate illegally by sea. Although it began to grow in 2012 following the war in Syria, the phenomenon has intensified in tandem with the economic and social...
