Point Of Arrival: Airstrikes

Tiny Island Dept: Lampedusa is currently housing some 4,800 Tunisians, almost doubling the island s population of 5,000 and putting a severe strain on its immigrant holding centre which has a capacity of just 850, according to The Star. Syrians hold defiant march ROME The UN warned Monday that Italy is facing a humanitarian and sanitation crisis on the tiny island of Lampedusa following the arrival of some 15,000 Tunisian boat people and fears that more migrants will flee there following coalition airstrikes on Libya. Italy had been ferrying and airlifting the migrants off the island to be processed at holding centres elsewhere. But those centres are now full, leading to a backlog in Lampedusa the primary point of arrival for North Africans due to its close proximity to Africa. As reported in the news.
@t north africans, close proximity