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MAP: After eliminating #Lajat salient, #SAA enters new phase by capturing Nahitah & securing Sama Hunaydat towns, seeking to secure its Daraa salient (through Khirbat Ghazalah) by clearing eastern #Daraa CS. #OpBasalt 1+
MAP: #SAA captures Maliha Sharqiyah, Maliha Gharbiyah, Rakham & 52nd Armoured Brigade from militant groups, activating Khirbat Ghazalah front by securing 42nd Air Defense Battalion in NE #Daraa CS. #Syria #OpBasalt
1700 H (EEST): An exclusive source confirms to @ArabianaINTEL that Al-Herak & Al-Sourah towns are still under militants control, despite some reports/maps claiming their liberation by #SAA. #Daraa #Syria

PS: β€˜Alma has been fully captured by SAA moments ago. #OpBasalt
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So. The #Lifeline case has descended into another Aquarius case. Meanwhile, 16 leaders of EU Member States meet for an #EUCO informal meeting on #migrationEU.

Time for a brief recap of the role of #NGO-s doing #SAR operations in the Central Mediterranean? πŸ‘‡
First: PERCEPTIONS MATTER. πŸ“ΊπŸ€”

Irregular sea arrivals to Italy are WAY down, and continue to be (-78% y-o-y), even as NGOs carried out over 40% of SAR operations in 2017 and 2018.
Still, 51% of Italians believe flows are as high or higher than last year's.πŸ‘‡
Second: DETERRENCE VS NGOs does not pay off (much).πŸš’β›”οΈπŸ“‰

Over the last two weeks of the new goverment's "deterring measures", the decline in sea arrivals vs 2017 is broadly in line with the drop experienced since July 2017. With or without #Aquarius and #Lifeline arrivals. πŸ‘‡
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