Syrians long for justice 10 years after shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa

Nine-year-old Mohammad (left) and 12-year-old Ahmad were among the 60 children, many of them Syrians fleeing war, who died off the coast of Lampedusa on October 11, 2013 [Illary Palmisano/Al Jazeera]

Lampedusa, Italy – Every year, Refaat Hazima visits the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, where tragedy struck his family 10 years ago.

On October 10, 2013, Hazima and his wife Feryal el-Saleh paid $6,000 to board a blue wooden vessel in the Libyan city of Zuwara with their three sons and more than 400 passengers, mostly fellow Syrians fleeing the war-ravaged country.