
THE families of refugees who went missing in the Mediterranean Sea on Christmas day are asking why European authorities have not begun looking for them.
The refugees – believed to number 13 – fled the shores of war-torn Libya from Sabratah in a fibreglass boat in the evening on December 24, a relative of one of the missing told the distress hotline activist network Alarm Phone on Boxing Day.
“Unfortunately the boat didn’t have a satellite phone,” an Alarm Phone activist told the Star today.

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Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike