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June 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Seven boats carrying 656 asylum-seekers and crew have been intercepted off Christmas Island in eight days, according to Department of Immigration and Citizenship figures.
The island’s five detention centres are now at “surge capacity”, with 1218 “irregular maritime arrivals”, as they are officially termed, housed as of Wednesday afternoon.
The figure does not include an estimated 230 people rescued on Wednesday from two boats – including one that sank north of Christmas Island – who began arriving on the island on Thursday morning.
Christmas Island, which is about 1600km off Western Australia’s northwest coast, can normally house 950 detainees.
However, it has a temporary surge capacity of 2008.
A department spokesperson said all single adult male arrivals were being held at the North West Point detention facility, which has a normal capacity of 304 and a surge capacity of 850. All unaccompanied children had been sent to the Phosphate Hill facility, which has a regular capacity of 96 and surge capacity of 318.
The department did not have any information on the number of detainees that had been shifted off the island in the past week.
The first of the seven boats was intercepted on June 20.
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