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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/uk-launches-libya-refugee-airlift.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="David Cameron said the UK will help airlift thousands of refugees left stranded on the Libyan border" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-uk-launches-libya-refugee-airlift.jpg" alt="David Cameron said the UK will help airlift thousands of refugees left stranded on the Libyan border"/></a></p>
<p>Two relief flights have set off from the the UK to help airlift thousands of refugees stranded on the Libyan border in the wake of dictator Muammar Gaddafi&#8217;s brutal crackdown on protests in the country.</p>
<p>The commercially chartered passenger airliners, which departed from East Midlands and Stansted airports, will arrive later in the Tunisian town of Djerba, where they will be joined by a third plane flying in from Italy.</p>
<p>The three aircraft have been chartered by the UK Government to help evacuate up to 6,000 stranded people, mainly Egyptian workers who have fled over the border from Libya and are unable to return home to their families.</p>
<p>The move follows an appeal by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for an international airlift to prevent a &#8220;humanitarian crisis&#8221; in the makeshift camps where the refugees are housed.</p>
<p>Some 85,000 people have crossed the border so far without the means to travel on to their homes, thousands are still sleeping in the open and some have no food or clean water.</p>
<p>The UK-chartered planes will fly in rotation to carry Egyptian nationals to Cairo, where they will be met by officials of their home country.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Department for International Development has already flown 36,000 blankets and tents for 1,500 people in Tunisia. Officials said DFID remains in close contact with the UN and others to get more relief supplies in and people out.</p>
<p>Plans for the evacuation flights were announced by Prime Minister David Cameron, who told the House of Commons: &#8220;These people shouldn&#8217;t be kept in transit camps if it is possible to take them back to their home.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will go on doing everything we can to ease the problems at the border and make sure this emergency doesn&#8217;t turn into a crisis.&#8221;</p>
<p>The PM added that the Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer HMS York, currently in the rebel-held port of Benghazi in eastern Libya, would also be available to assist with the relief operation.</p>
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