The migrant crisis in Italy is worsening while at the same time the country’s government is in an unprecedented situation trying to manage the flow of arrivals.

In Lampedusa, the Red Cross it is difficult to offer help to everyone as the hotspot can only accommodate a few hundred people, resulting in many migrants sleeping on the streets.

In 24 hours almost 7,000 people arrived, over 120 small improvised boats. The island’s only reception center can only accommodate a few hundred people, and the Red Cross is working as hard as ever to continue providing basic aid services, according to Francesca Basile, representative of the Italian Red Cross in Lampedusa.

According to Euronews, the hotspot of Lampedusa, in Sicily, has never been so crowded.

Beginning in the early hours of September 12, the unreliable and unstable iron ships followed one after the other.

There were no shortage of moments of tension in the port, where Guardia di Finanza agents tried to forcibly restrain hundreds of migrants asking to leave the pier, forcing people who tried to climb over the cordon. The city council of Lampedusa has declared a state of emergency on the island.

According to the country’s Interior Ministry, more than 120,000 migrants arrived in Italy by sea this year, including more than 11,000 unaccompanied minors.

In April the country declared a state of emergency for 6 monthsin an effort to limit and better manage the flow of arrivals.

Most of them cross Italy on foot, by bus or by train as they try to make their way north. The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, called on the countries of the European Union to share efforts to overcome the crisis.