{"id":1615,"date":"2025-01-02T13:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/over-2200-lives-lost-in-the-mediterranean-in-2024-unicef-reports\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T13:21:12","slug":"over-2200-lives-lost-in-the-mediterranean-in-2024-unicef-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/over-2200-lives-lost-in-the-mediterranean-in-2024-unicef-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2,200 lives lost in the Mediterranean in 2024, UNICEF reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1257662\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/migrants_migration_AP-320x200.jpg?v=1708592760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/migrants_migration_AP.jpg?v=1708592759\" alt=\"Over 2,200 lives lost in the Mediterranean in 2024, UNICEF reports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/migrants_migration_AP-960x600.jpg?v=1708592760\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo. [AP]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>UNICEF\u2019s Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe, Regina De Dominicis, revealed in a statement on Wednesday that over 2,200 lives were lost in the Mediterranean in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe death toll and number of missing persons in the Mediterranean in 2024 have now surpassed 2,200, with nearly 1,700 lives lost on the central Mediterranean route alone,\u201d she stated, highlighting that a significant portion of the victims were children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes hundreds of children, who make up one in five of all people migrating through the Mediterranean. The majority are fleeing violent conflict and poverty,\u201d De Dominicis emphasized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>De Dominicis\u2019 statement came the sinking of a migrant boat traveling from Libya off the coast of Lampedusa just hours before the New Year, on Tuesday, leaving more than 20 people missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tragedy comes only weeks after another deadly incident off the island left an 11-year-old girl as the sole survivor,\u201d she stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/foreign-policy\/1257662\/over-2200-lives-lost-in-the-mediterranean-in-2024-unicef-reports\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. [AP] UNICEF\u2019s Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe, Regina De Dominicis, revealed in a statement on Wednesday that over 2,200 lives were lost in the Mediterranean in 2024. \u201cThe death toll and number of missing persons in the Mediterranean in 2024 have now surpassed 2,200, with nearly 1,700 lives &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Over 2,200 lives lost in the Mediterranean in 2024, UNICEF reports\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/02\/over-2200-lives-lost-in-the-mediterranean-in-2024-unicef-reports\/#more-1615\" aria-label=\"Read more about Over 2,200 lives lost in the Mediterranean in 2024, UNICEF reports\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/migrants_migration_AP-960x600.jpg?v=1708592760","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}