{"id":98667,"date":"2017-04-17T02:40:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98667"},"modified":"2017-04-17T02:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T06:40:48","slug":"major-rescue-operation-in-central-mediterranean-saves-over-1500-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/17\/major-rescue-operation-in-central-mediterranean-saves-over-1500-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Major rescue operation in central Mediterranean saves over 1,500 migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98668\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mediterranee_02_EN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98668\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mediterranee_02_EN.jpg\" alt=\"This unprecedented situation serves as evidence of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Central Mediterranean. (Photo: O H 237\/ WIkipedia)\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mediterranee_02_EN.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mediterranee_02_EN-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mediterranee_02_EN-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This unprecedented situation serves as evidence of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Central Mediterranean. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\">O H 237\/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VALLETTA\u2013The Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) in the last 24 hours has rescued over 1,500 migrants in the central Mediterranean, according to an MOAS statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>MOAS said since the early hours of Saturday, it had rescued and assisted nine boats that contained a total of an estimated 1,500-1,800 people. The migrants are being transported to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend is the latest marker in the record-breaking escalation of the on-going humanitarian crisis at sea, MOAS said, after a further 2,074 migrants were rescued, also in the Central Mediterranean by various search-and-rescue (SAR) assets on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every day people continue to risk their lives while we, as civil society, stand witness,&#8221; said Regina Catrambone, MOAS Co-Founder and Director.<\/p>\n<p>This unprecedented situation serves as evidence of the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Central Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VALLETTA\u2013The Malta-based Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) in the last 24 hours has rescued over 1,500 migrants in the central &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,17],"tags":[18038,18039,724],"class_list":["post-98667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","category-news","category-news-w","tag-malta-based-migrant-offshore-aid-station","tag-mediterranean","tag-migrants","mauthors-xinhua-via-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}