Over the past five weeks, the ceasefire agreement has allowed for families to be reunited and for the deceased to be brought back to their loved ones for proper burials. More humanitarian aid has also ...

As Israel escalates its offensive against Hamas, Hisham Muhanna, spokesman for the International Committees of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) in the Gaza Strip, warns that civilians caught in ...

The neutral humanitarian agency also urged Hamas Islamist militants holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured nearly four years ago in a cross-border raid, to allow his family to have regular ...

On April 7, a viral Instagram post claimed the Red Cross has not visited the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza once since the start of the conflict. The Red Cross is an international humanitarian ...

We have been present in Israel and the occupied territories (including the occupied Palestinian territory) since 1967 and have offices in Tel Aviv, the occupied Golan Heights, Gaza, and across the ...

Follow us OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Israel has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian prisoners detained under a law targeting “unlawful combatants”, the ...

The following is an update of activities carried out by the ICRC in Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories in November 2005. Visits to detainees falling under the ICRC mandate are a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip violates the Geneva Conventions and called for its lifting. The neutral ...

The following is an update of activities carried out by the ICRC in Israel and the occupied and autonomous territories in April 2006. Following several incidents in which civilians, both Palestinians ...