World
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Region
10/23/2024 10:14:22 PM
Humanitarian workers face surging violence and worsening working conditions, with intensifying global conflicts and respect for international law on the decline, top Red Cross officials warned Wednesday.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 10:47:00 PM
The International Committee for the Red Cross called on Monday for Lebanon's health care system to be protected after reports that Israeli strikes hit medical staff during Israel's attacks.
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World
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Region
10/14/2024 8:15:25 PM
An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/8/2024 9:33:00 PM
Civilians in Gaza continue to live in ramshackle shelters, struggle to find food and are gripped by uncertainty, according to the Red Cross, even as the Israeli military has shifted its focus to its Lebanon offensive.
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World
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War in Ukraine
9/16/2024 11:28:12 AM
Ukraine on Monday said it had asked the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to verify the situation in areas of Russia's Kursk region seized by Kyiv.
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World
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War in Sudan
8/12/2024 3:52:04 PM
Red Cross chief Mirjana Spoljaric said Monday she hopes this week's scheduled talks on Sudan will result in solid humanitarian steps and remove obstacles blocking a ceasefire.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
7/18/2024 12:33:35 PM
All health facilities in southern Gaza have been pushed to "breaking point" due to an influx of people wounded by Israeli bombardments and doctors could soon be forced to make "difficult choices" on who gets treated, the Red Cross said Thursday.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/10/2024 10:41:40 PM
Large parts of war-torn Sudan are inaccessible to aid workers, a Red Cross official said Wednesday as devastating fighting between the army and paramilitaries rages on.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/22/2024 12:31:49 PM
The Israeli army on Saturday continued to pound Gaza after the International Committee of the Red Cross said 22 Palestinians were killed in shelling that damaged its office in the besieged Palestinian territory.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/30/2024 9:37:59 PM
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies asked state forces and combatants Thursday to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war and other high-risk zones, saying 24 of its aid workers had been killed so far this year mostly in the Gaza Strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
4/23/2024 8:43:47 PM
Humanitarian workers do not know plans to evacuate Palestinians from Gaza's southernmost city ahead of an expected Israeli assault, but such a transfer would not be "possible" under current conditions, a Red Cross official told AFP on Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/10/2024 7:05:23 PM
Six-year-old Hind Rajab pleaded to be rescued, after her family's car came under Israeli tank fire in Gaza City, leaving her alone, frightened and injured, surrounded by the bodies of her dead relatives.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/6/2024 4:12:27 PM
Around 8,000 displaced people have been evacuated from a besieged hospital in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis where they had sought refuge, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/5/2024 3:31:17 PM
The Indonesian embassy in Cairo witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Indonesian Red Cross and the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) for purchasing humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/26/2023 9:31:47 PM
Israel on Tuesday returned the bodies of 80 Palestinians killed in Gaza after taking them from morgues and graves to check there were no hostages among them, sources in the territory's health ministry said.
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World
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Region
12/25/2023 5:53:46 PM
Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, on Monday welcomed new commitments by Yemen's warring parties to take steps towards a ceasefire and engage in a UN-led peace process.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/4/2023 11:00:31 PM
The Red Cross president arrived in war-torn Gaza on Monday, calling for the protection of civilians in the Palestinian territory, where she warned that human suffering was "intolerable".
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/1/2023 1:13:21 PM
Renewed fighting in Gaza after a week-long truce has brought back a "nightmarish situation" for the Palestinian territory, the head of the Red Cross told AFP on Friday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/24/2023 5:32:27 PM
Two Hamas sources told AFP that some of the captives seized in the October 7 raids on Israel were on Friday handed over to the Red Cross for return to Israel, via Egypt.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/24/2023 3:03:58 PM
A Red Cross coach has departed Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank, believed to be carrying Palestinian prisoners, amid the ongoing truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and the anticipated exchange of detainees from both sides, Sky News reported
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