Hundreds of Migrants Relocated to Temporary Shelters Following Ceuta Border Crisis
Authorities said the clearance aimed to restore order and provide humanitarian care as two temporary sites filled with more than 1,200 people.
- On Thursday, August 20, 2026, Spanish police surrounded Playa del Trampolín in Ceuta to clear a makeshift migrant camp, moving occupants in groups of 30 under escort. By late morning, the beach was empty for the first time since July.
- Thousands began camping on the beach after a July 8 Supreme Court ruling halted fast-track returns, forcing migrants to remain in Ceuta. Conditions deteriorated severely, with sanitation shortages and a scabies outbreak spreading among residents.
- Officers divided migrants by nationality to prevent clashes during transfers to temporary sites. Government Delegation confirmed more than 1,200 people were moved into Loma Margarita and El Embolsamiento by late Thursday morning.
- The Migration Ministry stated the operation was designed "to guarantee proper humanitarian care, protect people's fundamental rights and preserve their dignity." Separately, officials announced 500 unaccompanied children will be transferred to the Spanish mainland.
- Around 10,000 migrants remain in Ceuta, up from 8,000 when city president Vivas issued a 30-day deadline for central government action. Vivas warned he would take the crisis to Spain's Supreme Court and Constitutional Court if conditions do not improve.
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Thousands of Migrants in Ceuta Wait in Limbo While Spain Figures Out What to Do with Them
For weeks, migrants in the Spanish territory of Ceuta had gathered on a beach away from the city center, sleeping on cardboard sheets, under reed huts and guarding their few possessions in tattered plastic bags. They were gone by Thursday morning after Spanish police escorted them to makeshift shelters. But an hour later, other migrants were combing through the trash they had left behind for anything useful: an abandoned mattress, plastic chairs…
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Ceuta strengthens reception resources and decks new sites while the eviction in El Trampolin is resumed and the relocation of those still there is unknown
After the relocation, El-Trampolino beach was cleaned, but some of the migrants subsequently returned.
Spanish security forces have "cleared" a beach in Ceuta where thousands of migrants have camped, reports El País.
Keriz, Hassan or Hamza are some of the thousands of migrants who have left the makeshift camp set up on the beach in uncertainty to be relocated to spaces authorized by the PP authorities and Vox redouble their offensive against the Government over the Ceuta crisis as they refuse their help to resolve it.A few minutes from seven in the morning when an exodus of thousands of people begins. About 4,000 migrants, among those of Maghreb origin and f…
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