Hungary has declared a state of emergency in two regions along its southern border with Serbia as Hungarian authorities arrest more than 60 people under new laws criminalizing border crossing. A group of refugees has declared a hunger strike at the border demanding passage. The rising tensions come as European Union officials meeting in Brussels Monday failed to agree on a plan to resettle 120,000 asylum seekers. Outside the meeting, the aunt of the three-year-old Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish shore after his boat sank in the Mediterranean, demanded the EU take action to help refugees.

Fatima Kurdi: “Please, save those refugees. Do something. Let’s put hand together, find a solution, make it happen. People should open their heart and help those refugees.”