Rescue ship named for drowned Syrian child refugee l Al Jazeera English
Sunday 10 February 2019 19:45 CET
A rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean has been renamed Alan Kurdi, after the Syrian toddler who died trying to reach Europe in 2015.
The image of the three-year-old's body washed up on a Turkish beach sparked global outrage and came to epitomise the plight of those fleeing war.
But that was three years ago and European hearts - and ports - have since closed to both refugees and rescue ships.
Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from the ship's naming ceremony on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
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