Barbed wire surrounds temporary Polish Army military camp in a border facility in Dubicze Cerkiewne, Poland
Polish soldiers stay guard on the train tracks crossing in Puszcza Bialowieska near Dubicze Cerkiewne, Poland
Military ambulance passed thru deserted street in Hajnowka, Poland
Iraqi Kurdistan migrant Aland Hama, (L) and Syrian migrant Masour Nassar, 42 years old from Aleppo, who have both applied for asylum in Poland, are taken by Polish border guards out of the Rafala Czerwiakowskiego Hosital Emergency ward of the district hospital on November 19, 2021 in Bielsk Podlask, Poland. At least 11 migrants have died in recent months while trying get into Poland from Belarus. Poland and Belarus are currently in a standoff over thousands of migrants, many of them from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, who have amassed on the Belarus side of the border with the hope of entering Poland and the European Union. E.U. authorities accuse the Belarusian government of enticing the migrants with tourist visas and using them as a political weapon.
Iraqi Kurdistan migrant Aland Hama, (L) and Syrian migrant Masour Nassar, 42 years old from Aleppo, who have both applied for asylum in Poland, are taken by Polish border guards out of the Rafala Czerwiakowskiego Hosital Emergency ward of the district hospital on November 19, 2021 in Bielsk Podlask, Poland. At least 11 migrants have died in recent months while trying get into Poland from Belarus. Poland and Belarus are currently in a standoff over thousands of migrants, many of them from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, who have amassed on the Belarus side of the border with the hope of entering Poland and the European Union. E.U. authorities accuse the Belarusian government of enticing the migrants with tourist visas and using them as a political weapon.
Empty road in the middle of the night in Puszcza Bialowieska near Michalowo.
Polish soldiers pass armoured vehicles in temporary Polish Army military camp in a border facility in Dubicze Cerkiewne, Poland
Protestors with Polish group Matki na granice, Mothers at the Border, hold banners and photographs at a demonstration on November 20, 2021 in Hajnowka, Poland. At least 13 migrants have died in recent months while trying to reach the European Union from Belarus. Poland and Belarus are currently in a standoff over thousands of migrants, many of them from Iraq, Syria and Yemen, who have amassed on the Belarus side of the border with the hope of entering Poland and the European Union. E.U. authorities accuse the Belarusian government of enticing the migrants with tourist visas and using them as a political weapon.
A green light shines in the window of a house near the Polish-Belarusian border, where an initiative encourages inhabitants to display a green light if they are willing to help migrants in search of assistance on November 19, 2021 in Michalowo, Poland.
Commander of the Volunteer Fire Department in Micha?w Krzysztof OczkoThe Border Guard also comes to us for things, for provisions for those who are waiting at their facility for the examination of asylum papers - he says. Because there are not always deportations. - I've been driving milk to kids there recently. There were six children. Two months to six years, if I remember correctly. Five families. Nineteen adults, six children. It is known: milk, diapers. These babies are beautiful. A girl like that comes, maybe four years old, and I'm standing there, thinking what to give her. I run to the car to get the teddy bear. And she hugged the teddy bear right away ... - The commander has tears in his eyes. - The nerves are letting go. I have lived through so many years, but I have never experienced anything like that. Incredible stress.
Uniforms of Firemans in Volunteer Fire Department in Michalowo
Storage of goods for refugees in at a centre for migrants in Volunteer Fire Department in Michalow
Volunteer Purtas Pur speaks in a centre, which receives donations and provides supplies to organizations helping migrants and activist on the Polish-Belarusian border, in the settlement of Michalowo, Poland.
Volunteer Purtas Pur shows an example of medical package which is distributed to local activist on November 20, 2021 in Michalowo, Poland
Mourners and members of the local community lower the coffin into the ground during the funeral of Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Al-Raimi, a 37-year-old Yemeni asylum-seeker who died in a Polish forest after crossing into the country from Belarus, on November 21, 2021 in Bohoniki, Poland. Bohoniki, which is just outside the red zone of the Polish-Belarus border, is home to a Muslim Tatar community who have recently buried several migrants who died while trying to reach the European Union from Belarus. Poland and other western countries accuse the Belarusian government of creating a crisis by bringing thousands of migrants - mostly from the Middle East - to the country's border with Poland, promising an easy route to the European Union. The crisis appeared to have eased somewhat this week as large numbers of migrants were relocated to a shelter away from the border crossing, and several hundred were repatriated to Iraq by plane. But countless migrants remain inside Belarus hoping to find a route west through Poland, a journey that has proved deadly for some.
Mourners and members of the local community lower the coffin into the ground during the funeral of Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Al-Raimi, a 37-year-old Yemeni asylum-seeker who died in a Polish forest after crossing into the country from Belarus, on November 21, 2021 in Bohoniki, Poland. Bohoniki, which is just outside the red zone of the Polish-Belarus border, is home to a Muslim Tatar community who have recently buried several migrants who died while trying to reach the European Union from Belarus. Poland and other western countries accuse the Belarusian government of creating a crisis by bringing thousands of migrants - mostly from the Middle East - to the country's border with Poland, promising an easy route to the European Union. The crisis appeared to have eased somewhat this week as large numbers of migrants were relocated to a shelter away from the border crossing, and several hundred were repatriated to Iraq by plane. But countless migrants remain inside Belarus hoping to find a route west through Poland, a journey that has proved deadly for some.
Mourners and members of the local community lower the coffin into the ground during the funeral of Mustafa Mohammed Murshed Al-Raimi, a 37-year-old Yemeni asylum-seeker who died in a Polish forest after crossing into the country from Belarus, on November 21, 2021 in Bohoniki, Poland. Bohoniki, which is just outside the red zone of the Polish-Belarus border, is home to a Muslim Tatar community who have recently buried several migrants who died while trying to reach the European Union from Belarus. Poland and other western countries accuse the Belarusian government of creating a crisis by bringing thousands of migrants - mostly from the Middle East - to the country's border with Poland, promising an easy route to the European Union. The crisis appeared to have eased somewhat this week as large numbers of migrants were relocated to a shelter away from the border crossing, and several hundred were repatriated to Iraq by plane. But countless migrants remain inside Belarus hoping to find a route west through Poland, a journey that has proved deadly for some.