2015-09-26aljazeera.com

Beginning on October 7, the new phase will allow for the seizure of vessels and arrests of traffickers in international waters, as well as the deployment of European warships on the condition that they do not enter Libyan waters... The operation currently involves four ships - including an Italian aircraft carrier - and four planes, as well as 1,318 staff from 22 European countries.

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Gerry Simpson, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch's refugee programme, described the operation as "lawful but misguided". "EU officials are misguided when they treat smugglers and traffickers as the root of the refugee problem," he told Al Jazeera. "The roots of the problem are the violence in their home countries, as well as the conditions in the first countries where they take refuge - Egypt, Libya, Turkey [and] Sudan."



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