City pleads for national emergency after thousands of migrants swarm onto beach

Luke Alsford | News Reporter Published July 30, 2026 3:25pm Updated July 30, 2026 3:25pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Thousands of migrants from Morocco have swarmed a Spanish beach in north Africa and overwhelmed police trying to stop them crossing. Migrants are ‘massively entering from the sea’ into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, the Guardia Civil said. The region’s government has begged Madrid to deploy the army and close the Moroccan border, warning a ‘total humanitarian and social emergency’ is taking place. State television TVE said that 2,000 to 3,000 youths had crossed into Spain by sea, with some reportedly scaling the border fence. Images showed migrants paddling from Morocco in