Ceuta and Melilla: Europe's most fortified border also serves as a Jewish religious boundary

DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Spain’s Ceuta and Melilla have become the center of a migration crisis, reviving geopolitical tensions while highlighting a crossroads of Jewish history and culture.

Ceuta’s crisis: The border held; Europe's trust did not  euractiv.com

The two Spanish enclaves in North Africa remain at the centre of a diplomatic standoff between Spain and Morocco.

Last week, 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind.

Communist China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday fretted that last week’s invasion of migrants from Morocco to Ceuta, Spain might have “provided fresh ammunition for Europe's rising right-wing parties, allowing them to further weaponize migration as a political issue.”

Following the mass arrivals in Ceuta, Spanish authorities say they are seeing a rise in suspected clandestine crossings by boat and jet ski from the North African enclave across the Strait of Gibraltar to mainland Spain.

Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing  AP News

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CEUTA, Spain (AP) — The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory. Her little brother did not, drowning in the Mediterranean, while their mother disappeared in the chaos when tens of thousands of people surged through the breakwater, trying to leave Morocco behind.The tragic story of a 17-year-old fro