"One refugee in, one refugee out. It makes no sense." 🎥People on the move in Calais are speaking out after the "one in, one out" agreement between France and the UK came into force.

The scars remain. In 2024, people rescued by our team shared accounts of interception and violence. These are not isolated cases. Sadly, this is what we hear time and again at sea.

A small child has died after dozens of migrants were rescued from a boat near the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. According to reports, the cause of death was severe exposure to cold temperatures.

Seeking safety is not a crime.

🔴Violence at sea is intensifying. Civil SAR vessels in the Central Mediterranean face gunfire and threats by the Libyan Coast Guard, putting lives at risk. Silence and complicity allow this violence to continue. Accountability is urgent. @en.sea-watch.org @sosmediterranee.org

📢We’re hiring a Field Communications Coordinator. If you have solid experience in humanitarian communications, and the ability to lead and support the SAR communications team, apply here: bit.ly/4eKgB88 This position is open only to candidates with MSF experience.

Another dangerous and violent attack by EU-funded Libyan coastguard against a civilian rescue vessel. All support and solidarity with the crew and survivors on board #Seawatch5

Artificial Intelligence is able to recognize that they are people.  So why aren’t some politicians?  They are not defined by status or borders. They are people whose lives are at risk.  Let us act with human-itarian intelligence.

We're hiring! 📢 We’re looking for a Technical Logistics Manager to support the SAR project in its activities on the boat and onshore. Apply now: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/technic...

We are deeply concerned by the new financial agreement between France and the UK. Strengthening dangerous border policies puts lives at risk. People on the move need protection and safe pathways. Read 👉 bit.ly/42mq79V 🧵

⚫In 2026, 1,051 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean.  It is crucial to remember that behind every number there is a life: a person with a name, a story, and a future that was cut short at sea.

Now hiring! Audio-Visual Digital Communications Manager at @msfsea.bsky.social based in Licata, Sicily. If you’re passionate about digital storytelling, social media, and humanitarian communications, apply here: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/audio-v...

Caroline Willemen, former Head of Mission Belgium looks back into her many experiences working with MSF on various migration routes at EU borders and talks about the various forms of violence people on the move are victim of.

❗Recent reports highlighting violent practices and pushbacks at Greece’s borders reflect a situation that has been documented for years, both on land and at sea.

What if they didn’t need to run from hell? After a critical rescue at the end of February 2024, we mourned those who lost their lives. In tribute to the people we meet at sea, our former cultural mediator, Nejma, wrote this poem. 🖋️

📢Join our team! As a Deputy Logistics Coordinator, you'll support in designing, planning & implementing logistical strategies for SAR operations. Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4tonnEM

“They took my mother and brother, and they beat us,” said Ahmed*.   We met him in 2024 after our team rescued him at sea. His harrowing testimony reflects patterns of violence and abuse against people attempting to cross the sea in search of a safer life.

We stand firmly with @en.sea-watch.org and crew of Aurora, who are detained and are now facing fines after rescuing 44 people who had been stranded on an oil platform for five days. As we continue to witness deadly shipwrecks, Italian authorities are still penalising those who rescue lives at sea.

#Lebanon: Around 2pm Sunday, Israeli forces struck a densely populated area in Beirut, meters from Rafik Hariri Public Hospital, where MSF supports an ER doctor. A mass-casualty influx followed. In the first hour: 4 killed, ~40 injured. More feared as rubble is cleared.

🚨Italy detains our rescue ship #Aurora despite 71 people missing since the horrific Easter shipwreck in the Mediterranean. After rescuing 44 people stranded for FIVE DAYS on an abandoned oil platform, we now face a fine of up to €10,000 ➡️ sea-watch.org/en/italy-det...

71 people are reported missing after a boat sank off Italy this weekend. Two bodies were recovered and 32 survivors were rescued by merchant ships. These deaths are the result of political choices that block safe routes and criminalise rescues. www.reuters.com/world/ships-...

⚫️Another tragic and preventable deaths in the central Med‼️ Today, 19 bodies were brought to Lampedusa after a rescue by Italian Coast Guard. They likely died from hypothermia and Europe’s policy of deterrence, obstruction of rescues and lack of safe routes.

🟢Court win: The Italian court of Salerno annulled the third detention order against our SAR vessel Geo Barents, operated between 2021 and 2024. Read the statement 👉 bit.ly/3NTqhSu

For the second time in just over a year, UpRights and StraLi, this time together with @msf.org and Pro Iura, have obtained urgent interim measures from the UN Human Rights Committee against #Malta for its failure to rescue people in distress in the #Mediterranean. Read more tinyurl.com/sp8bya9z

🌊 We’re hiring an Engagement & Outreach Officer to organise events & public appearances that highlights our SAR work across Italy and Europe 🌍 Build networks, engage cultural figures, and coordinate impactful public activities. Apply now 👉🏽 searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/engagem...

We are pleased to welcome Laura Leyser as the new Secretary General of MSF International as of 1 March 2026.

Since our founding in 1971, we’ve grown to a global movement delivering emergency medical care in over 70 countries. Thanks to our 7 million individual donors, we provide care where it’s needed.

Three years ago, at least 94 people, including 35 children, died near Italy in what is known as the Cutro shipwreck. Humane and rational migration policies are possible, and there is now a rare chance for accountability. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3OwsMud

Three years ago, on 26 February 2023, a wooden boat crashed against the rocks and sank a few meters from the shore of #Cutro, Italy. 94 people died, including at least 35 children. The boat had been detected hours earlier without any appropriate reaction from authorities.

Since the ceasefire agreement on Oct. 10, 2025, the #GazaStrip is divided by a dangerous, ambiguous and ever-expanding “yellow line” controlled by the Israeli military. One side of the line is under Israeli military control pushing people of #Gaza into the remaining 42 per cent.

📢At least 606 people seeking safety in Europe have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean sea since January 2026. This is considered the deadliest start to a year in over a decade, according to @unmigration.bsky.social.

Deadliest start to a year! "A least 606 people trying to reach Europe in search of refugee have been reported dead or missing in the Mediterranean since the beginning of 2026, marking the 'deadliest start to a year' in more than a decade" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

📢The Genoa Civil Tribunal has definitively annulled the sanctions imposed on the Geo Barents, @msf.org's former rescue vessel, in September 2024. These sanctions had already been suspended in October 2024. Once again, justice has affirmed our rescue duty!

🚨 Join MSF's Search & Rescue operation in the Mediterranean! Become our Logistics Team Leader in Sicily. Manage supply chains, support SAR operations, ensure lifesaving operations run smoothly. Apply by 28 February: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/logisti...

🚨 We're hiring a Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator to lead advocacy on Search & Rescue operations around Central Mediterranean migration. Shape strategy, engage civil society, amplify voices. Italian speakers preferred! Apply: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/humanit...

After months of unsuccessful engagement with Israeli authorities, and in the absence of assurances regarding the safety of our staff we have concluded that we will not share a list of Palestinian and international staff with Israeli authorities. www.msf.org/msf-statemen...

Since 2015, MSF teams in Lesvos have been providing primary healthcare, mental health support, sexual & reproductive health services, outreach, and emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat. 🧵

It’s been almost three years of war in #Sudan. Our Sudanese colleagues lost homes, loved ones and peace of mind but every day, they still show up to care for others. Watch our staff share their stories and read more about their journeys: https://ow.ly/Am1p50XWZaT#Sudan #TalkAboutSudan

🧵We are witnessing a worrying global trend: attacks on NGOs. Greece is no exception! Solidarity and humanitarian aid are not crimes, yet the new migration law criminalises humanitarian work.

Seeking safety is not a crime.

This is winter in Gaza. People are facing torrential rain and heavy winds while living in makeshift shelters. All the while Israel continues to block or delay the entry of vital supplies like tents, tarpaulins, and temporary housing.

An alarming escalation of clashes between armed groups and the police in the Bel Air neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has killed one person and forced the suspension of activities. 

In 2025, we marked 10 years of @msf.ca in Lesvos. A decade of care, solidarity and standing with people seeking safety. We celebrated with a photo exhibition and a public discussion with the local community. Our commitment remains the same: quality care for all and defending human dignity.

🧵“We had a comfortable life in Sudan and leaving it was very difficult. But it was our only option,” says Khaled, who is from Al-Jazirah, Sudan, but is now living in Aswan, Egypt. “Our home country is left without healthcare, older people like me can't stay long without it.”

WATCH: MSF Executive Director @sana.msf.ca speaks to CTV about vital humanitarian activities in #Palestine at risk from Israeli registration rules. MSF provides a vast amount of life-saving healthcare, yet even this is not enough to meet the overwhelming needs of people in #Gaza.

⚫Another deadly shipwreck: during the night of 19 December, 116 people went missing from a boat according to @alarmphone.bsky.social Tunisian fishermen reportedly found a single survivor on a wooden boat, who said he was the only one to make it. Safe passage, now! alarmphone.org/en/2025/12/2...

NEW EPISODE: @msfsea.bsky.social’s Juan Matias Gil tells us how the Italian government made it impossible for the medical charity to use its Geo Barents rescue ship. He also tells us about MSF’s new rescue vessel, the Oyvon –and what happened on its first rescue mission.

Os regalo un vídeo de mi familia @msfsea.bsky.social como siempre muy interesante

On Tuesday morning, just a week after a young boy was found dead on the shores of Samos, another shipwreck put 35 lives at risk. Hours later, a man was found dead, while 2 people remain missing, including a pregnant woman carrying twins.

🎙️In her voice, Simona, our medical doctor on board Oyvon, narrates what she has witnessed at sea. She reflects on the dangerous journeys that people undertake in search of safety. Moments filled with uncertainty, fear and a loom of hope.