{"id":237465,"date":"2023-09-19T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T06:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237465"},"modified":"2023-09-19T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T06:40:35","slug":"tunisia-arrests-1200-illegal-immigrants-over-past-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=237465","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia arrests 1,200 illegal immigrants over past 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/33MM98V-highres-1688982731.jpg?resize=770%2C513&amp;quality=80\" alt=\"African migrants board a train\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TUNIS, Sept 19 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; During the past 24 hours, Tunisian security units arrested 1,200 of different nationalities who planned to cross illegally the Mediterranean to Europe, private radio station Mosaique FM reported on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The arrest operations were carried out by National Guard units during a security campaign in the southeastern province of Sfax to stop the illegal immigration waves,&#8221; Mosaique FM quoted Houcemeddine Jbabli, spokesman for the Tunisian National Guard, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that the security units also arrested a number of organizers of the trips across the sea and seized wooden boats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the security campaign, the island of Kerkennah in Sfax province Saturday witnessed an aerial operation with the participation of many special security units and rapid intervention teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The campaign was carried out against the backdrop of the coast of the province becoming a major starting point for illegal immigrants as they attempted to sneak into the Italian island of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The island of Lampedusa, the first stop usually chosen by illegal immigrants for their sea voyage toward Italy, is only about 80 km from the Tunisian coasts.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS, Sept 19 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; During the past 24 hours, Tunisian security units arrested 1,200 of different nationalities who planned to cross illegally the Mediterranean to Europe, private radio station Mosaique FM reported on Monday. &#8220;The arrest operations were carried out by National Guard units during a security campaign in the southeastern province of Sfax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237467,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237465\/revisions\/237467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}