Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered camps to be set up on the country’s western border today to accommodate survivors of devastating floods in neighboring Libya.

According to the newspaper “Al Ahram”, Sisi requested that camps be organized on the coast, on the border with Libya, “for our Libyan brothers who lost their homes”.

The Libyan authorities estimate that the missing in the city of Derna are “thousands” while the confirmed dead exceed 3,800. At least 30,000 residents of the city were displaced, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Among the victims are at least 145 Egyptians, whose bodies were repatriated yesterday Tuesday. Sisi expressed his condolences to their families and called for “emergency assistance” to be provided to the relatives of the victims.

The organization of camps in Egypt is unprecedented. Cairo had refused many times to set up such accommodation structures in the context of the refugee crisis.