🔴 BREAKING: Italy is investigating our captain! After rescuing 166 people from distress at sea and being SHOT AT, CHASED, AND THREATENED WITH ABDUCTION by EU-funded Libyan militias, our crew is now being targeted – WTF?!

Last night, the NADIR crew responded to an @alarmphone alert and briefly thereafter found 44 people, including ten women (one pregnant) and four children. Their black rubber boat already took on water.

🔴 SHOTS FIRED Our Sea-Watch 5 is being shot at by the EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard. Our crew just finished rescuing 90 people, but Libyan militias are still following us. They expressed the intent to abduct us to Libya!

Tuesday night, the crew responded to 3 separate distress situations – one on an abandoned oil platform and two unseaworthy boats. The NADIR brought 90 people to the next place of safety, Lampedusa. [1/3]

Yesterday, the NADIR crew sighted 27 people in distress on a fiberglass boat. The boat had departed Libya a day prior, but its engine had failed, leaving those on board without any life-saving equipment. Everyone was safely evacuated onto our sailboat.

@frontex.bsky.social, are you serious? Your aircraft saw a boat in distress but instead of informing ships for rescue, it only informed planes. Our air-crew reacted, flew to the scene & did what Frontex should've: inform ships. @resqship_int brought all survivors to Lampedusa this morning✊

53 people in distress, while Europe watches. On monday, NADIR was alerted by a @en.sea-watch.org aircraft to an unstable rubber boat. Our crew immediately evacuated everyone – including 10 minors and a 2-year-old child – from the unseaworthy vessel. [1/2]

This week, 116 people were stranded for four days on the Miskar offshore gas platform in the middle of the Mediterranean - among them two babies, one child, and several teenagers. They had fled Libya and were caught in a storm with winds up to 40 knots and 6-meter waves.

Will people on the move soon be branded as terrorists? A new decree escalates Italy's war on migration. Yesterday, Meloni's ultra-right government published a proposal, including measures to deny our vessels entry into 🇮🇹territorial waters for 1-6 months.🧵https://t.co/Eot8NjJQHs

UN experts urge Malta to drop charges against El Hiblu 3 and uphold migrants’ rights „We condemn these unjustified charges. We are also concerned that Maltese law criminalises as terrorism conduct that is not genuinely terrorist under international law.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Following an Eagle1 Mayday Relay, the NADIR assisted 29 people in distress from a dangerously overcrowded rubber boat on Tuesday. Due to the urgent need for medical attention, all were immediately taken aboard the NADIR vessel. Tunisian authorities arrived but departed after a brief exchange.

In Kooperation mit @sea-eye-ffm.bsky.social @resqship.bsky.social @alarmphone.bsky.social @hpiswiss.bsky.social Armut+Gesundheit @seebruecke-frankfurt.de @united4rescue.org & Respekt! www.landungsbruecken.org/de/programm_...

Last Saturday morning, our crew found a fiberglass boat in distress with 47 people on board. @alarmphone.bsky.social had previously reported the boat. When our crew arrived, the boat was already taking on water, and the people had no life jackets.

Wednesday noon, our crew assisted 71 people in distress in a heavily overcrowded rubber boat. Among them women and children. The boat was at severe risk of capsizing with waves around one meter high. When NADIR arrived, the people on board were extremely exhausted, many seasick, some with fever.

On Tuesday morning, our crew encountered a rubber boat in distress, alerted by @alarmphone.bsky.social. 73 people, including 4 unaccompanied minors, were on board. Water was already entering and there was a high risk of drowning.

On Sunday at noon, our crew spotted 56 people, including several minors, crowded onto a rubber boat that was taking on water. Those on board reported that the situation was rapidly worsening and becoming life-threatening as the waves and panic increased.

🚨Breaking: our fears became true. Yesterday, three people were shot by Libyan militias, one of them is in a coma. The so-called Libyan coastguard is financed and trained by the EU. We hope strongly that everyone will survive. More info:

Last night, 175 people on two boats were supported by NADIR with help of Merchant vessel IVY1. Our crew responded to a distress case alerted to by @alarmphone.bsky.social and soon encountered 75 people on an overcrowded wooden double decker who had departed from Libya 3 days earlier.

NADIR assisted 243 people over the weekend and found a fourth boat empty. On Saturday at noon, our crew spotted 78 people on an unseaworthy wooden boat. After stabilising the situation, the survivors were evacuated by the Italian coastguard.

❕Empty boats, shattered rights❕ On monday, following a Mayday Relay from EAGLE2, reporting 50 people on an overcrowded boat, NADIR headed south to support. Upon arrival, our crew observed a high-speed vessel from the so-called Libyan Coast Guard. Radar showed it stop briefly before turning east.

Harassment at sea following an evacuation of 44 people‼️ On Monday evening, our crew evacuated 44 people from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress. Amongst them were eight minors. The survivors had no life-saving equipment, the engine was broken, and the boat had already taken on water.

This morning, NADIR overheard a Mayday Relay from a fishing vessel: 130 people on a wooden boat. Alongside @openarmsfund.bsky.social’ ASTRAL, NADIR headed to the scene. ASTRAL notified about another case: 60 people on a rubber boat. We gave life vests, but the Italian Coast Guard soon evacuated all.

Today, we mourn three young sisters, aged 9, 11, and 17, who lost their lives far too soon, drowned Friday night in a flooded, overcrowded boat. Their mother, brother, aunt, and friends survived, but now face the unbearable grief of losing them in such a senseless way. Our thoughts are with them.

🖤 Three sisters aged 9, 11 and 17 drowned in the #CentralMed, another person remains missing. Our NADIR crew rescued 65 people from a flooded, overcrowded rubber boat that same night, on saturday early morning. The group had departed Zuwara, Libya, the day before.

Yesterday, the aircraft #Seabird2 alerted #Nadir to a distress case. An hour later, our crew found the boat drifting in high waves, with 12 people on board. They had departed from Libya the day before. Nadir arrived just in time as the so-called Libyan Coast Guard was around. 📸 Barbara Sartore

Mit der Organisation @resqship.bsky.social war Kaltinka Sturm im Mittelmeer unterwegs, versorgte Menschen in Seenot und war zusammen mit der gesamten Besatzung immer wieder zum Nichtstun verurteilt - durch die italienischen Behörden. #Seenotrettung

🚨 URGENT: Italian authorities have just detained our monitoring aircraft Seabird. The italian government is trying to eliminate us as witnesses from the Mediterranean. They want to hide what’s happening at sea. We won’t let them. We will keep you informed.

Around 11 a.m. yesterday, our crew spotted 26 people in distress in the Maltese SAR region. Three women, 23 men –including three minors – had left from Sabratha, Libya, two days earlier in an unseaworthy and overcrowded rubber boat without life-saving equipment, struggling in two-metre waves.

Impressions from our last operation two days ago, joined by journalist Adrian Kriesch for ProSieben. Meanwhile, the NADIR returned to the central Mediterranean yesterday and is once again back in the operational area. credit: ProSieben, Sat.1 / Adrian Kriesch

We grieve 4 lives -1 reported drowned, 3 missing, likely taken by the sea. Not lost to fate, but to a violent border regime. The EU turns the Med. into a mass grave, and calls it policy. Our thoughts are with the loved ones who lost a friend. With the families who lost a son, a husband, a brother.

Yesterday, our airplane Seabird spotted a boat in distress, at least 14 persons went overboard. @resqship.bsky.social assisted & found 12 in the water. We searched for survivors unsuccessfully. The 2nd gruesome case of neglect we're witnessing this week: EU authorities are a complete nightmare.

‪🔴Breaking: People survived 6 days at sea in rough weather, several still missing! This afternoon NADIR located a boat in high risk of sinking, after being informed by the plane of @sea-watch.org. The 36 ppl. including babies & pregnant women had been at sea for 6 days in up to 2m high waves. [1/2]

🌊The NADIR is back on operation! After a second arbitrary detention and weather delays, our sailing vessel finally left port today. We're heading to the central Med., where independent monitoring is urgently needed. Authorities may try to stop us—but we won't be stopped. ✊

🛫 Covering rebooking costs for our crews' travels 🛬 Due to NADIR's two arbitrary detentions, we had to rebook three crew’s travel arrangements – summing up to €4.240,01 in total. 👉 Criminalisation comes at a cost – support us here: resqship.org/en/donations #donate #LetUsSail #FreeNadir

⛽️ Help us cover €1.395 in fuel costs! ⛽️ After NADIR’s detention, Italian authorities diverted our ship to Porto Empedocle. The added journeys – back and forth – meant unexpected fuel expenses. 👉 Support us to get back to sea: resqship.org/en/donations... #FreeNadir 📷 Leon Salner | RESQSHIP e. V.

While crossings in the Central Med increase during the peak summer season, three civilian NGO rescue ships are detained in Lampedusa. Our vessel, the NADIR, along with @sea-watch.org's AURORA and DAKINI, has been blocked on spurious charges. [1/4]

📜 Help us cover a €3,333 fine! 📜 A fine was issued after our vessel NADIR’s second detention. Covering this cost is essential to resume our operations in the Central Med. Every donation helps! 👉 Support us now: resqship.org/en/donations... #LetUsSail #FreeNadir 📷 @paula_gaess

In a joint statement with 31 organisations, we are calling for the immediate release of our sailing vessel, the NADIR — and an end to the criminalisation and obstruction of non-governmental search and rescue efforts. Read the full joint statement here: resqship.org/en/statement... [1/2]

🚨 The Nadir rescue ship could be confiscated by the Italian government on its next mission! People are drowning - and the state is punishing those who rescue them. Italy is acting illegally. And deadly.

🔴Press release! Our sailing vessel #NADIR has been blocked from leaving port – again. For the second time in one month, Italian authorities apply Piantedosi to keep us from monitoring the Med. While people drown, Europe criminalises the #civilFleet 📑Read statement here: resqship.org/en/detention...

⚠️Saving lives is not a crime!

🔴 BREAKING: NADIR not allowed to sail. The political repression against #RESQSHIP goes on. On Saturday, #NADIR was forbidden to leave Lampedusa after disembarking 59 people in the night before. It is the second time within a month that we face repercussions for engaging in a rescue in the Med.

Yesterday, NADIR assisted 59 people, after #Seabird3 had spotted the wooden boat in distress. People had been at sea without any life saving equipment for two days, some in immediate need for medical attention, and the boat was dangerously tilting, increasing the risk of capzising. [1/2]

On Tuesday, 1 July, NADIR met 19 persons on a boat in distress. Following an arbitrary 20-day-long detention, #NADIR returned to the Central Med this week and found 19 people on a wooden boat, among them a baby, in distress and provided first aid until Italian authorities took over. [1/2]

🚨 Episode 71: Dead Children and Distant Ports Doctors Hannah & James tell us about a rescue in May when the crew of @resqship.bsky.social's Nadir found 60+ people, including 2 dead babies, in the Med And how soon after that, the Italian authorities detained the ship, preventing further rescues.

Nachdem vor ca. einer Woche bereits die #Nadir von @resqship.bsky.social festgesetzt wurde, hat Italien nun auch das zivile Seenotrettungsschiff #SeaEye5 blockiert. Die Sea-Eye 5 hatte am Samstag 65 Menschen aus Seenot gerettet und im Anschluss nach Sizilien gebracht.

After rescuing 112 people, our ship NADIR is arbitrarily detained in Lampedusa. The accusations are baseless. We followed all laws. This is not about law – it’s about political calculation. We demand the immediate release of #NADIR Read our full press statement here : resqship.org/en/detention...

[1/3] After spending the night at sea, the NADIR safely reached the assigned #PortOfSafety, Lampedusa, this afternoon. We are glad that all 115 people have now disembarked safely and wish them strength for their journey ahead.

[1/5] Yesterday evening, our crew spotted 115 people on board of an overcrowded wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean, including five babies. The boat was already taking on water, and swell was increasing up to one meter.

[1/4] On an early evening on Monday, NADIR spotted 110 people in distress on a wooden boat. Some of them were seated below the deck in the hull where engine fumes accumulate. Among them were 16 women, including two who were pregnant, and six children.