Overview
- Security forces began a large operation on Thursday to clear the improvised camp at Playa del Trampolín and move people into newly prepared reception sites such as Loma Margarita and El Embolsamiento.
- Spanish authorities say roughly 72,000 people reached Ceuta at the end of July, about 70,000 later returned to or were returned to Morocco, and about 1,800 remain in the city.
- The central government has set up two temporary reception facilities to stop people sleeping on beaches or in the street and plans to transfer around 500 unaccompanied girls to the Spanish mainland for specialised care.
- Health officials and nursing bodies report outbreaks of scabies, gastroenteritis and other infections and warn local hospitals and staff are strained after weeks of treating hundreds daily.
- The crisis has become a political and legal flashpoint as the conservative PP demands large‑scale returns while Madrid cites Spanish law and past court rulings that require individual procedures for unaccompanied minors and limit summary expulsions.