Skip to main content
Donate to the 95 years appeal
Doctors Without Borders to resume lifesaving missions in the central Mediterranean
Charity announces new alliance with refugee rescuers Sea Watch as European states continue to ignore migrant deaths in the Mediterranean
MSF and Sea Watch's new ship, the Sea Watch 4 [Chris Grodotzki / Sea Watch]

INTERNATIONAL charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is to resume efforts to save the lives of refugees in distress in the central Mediterranean on board a new rescue ship.

MSF announced today that it was teaming up with German refugee rescuers Sea Watch to help in operations by the refugee rescue NGO’s new ship the Sea Watch 4, which is currently docked in Spain and scheduled to return to the Mediterranean later this month.

“No human being should be left to drown, to sink beneath the waves,” said MSF director of operations Oliver Behn.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Red Devils' logo
Men’s Rugby League / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

Fan group The 1873 issues scathing response to owners’ statement saying the club will not close

People inspect the damage at the Sheikh Radwan al-Taba UNRWA clinic following an Israeli army bombardment in Gaza City, August 6, 2025
Gaza / 6 August 2025
6 August 2025

Israeli media awash with leaks and rumours of Netanyahu’s plans to seize Gaza. Meanwhile, the unrelenting siege of Gaza continues unabated 

Demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags look on as the Ship to Gaza boat 'Handala' arrives at the port of Malmö, Sweden, May 8, 2024
Middle East / 29 July 2025
29 July 2025

Mr Smalls and 13 other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists who tried to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza aboard the Handala ship remain in detention and on hunger strike

Similar stories
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 7 August 2025
7 August 2025

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution points are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report