Red Cross

Israel to assume one-year chairmanship of Arlosen Archives, comprehensive WWII archive in 2027

In 2025, the Arolsen Archives partnered with Israel’s Central Zionist Archive to digitize over 1300 child tracing files, records originally created for unaccompanied Jewish children after the war.

|BySIDNEY BLASCO
Israeli soldiers stand guard during a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, April 14, 2026
A general view of a burnt emergency medical tent set up by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) at the General Referral Hospital of Mongbwalu in Mongbwalu, on May 23, 2026.

Protesters burn treatment centers, attack healthcare workers to retrieve bodies of Ebola victims

The Ebola outbreak has sparked a wave of misinformation that health officials linked to violent assaults on healthcare workers and attacks on healthcare centers. 

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
MK GALIT Distel Atbaryan leads the Special Committee for the Communications Law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026.

'Terrorist' vs 'Judeo-Nazi': MKs trade barbs over bill barring Red Cross from Israeli prisons

The bill was drafted by Galit Distel Atbaryan, Keti Shitrit, and a group of additional lawmakers. Thirty-six MKs voted in favor of the bill, while 41 opposed it, and it was removed from the agenda.

|ByANNA BARSKY
A view shows a Red Cross vehicle outside the Israeli military prison Ofer ahead of the expected release of Palestinian prisoners, as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, near Ramallah, in the West Bank, January 30, 2025.

Knesset rejects proposed bill aimed at preventing Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees

An explanatory statement regarding the proposal cited “the security risk involved in the entry of external elements into prisons” as the reason for the bill being put forward.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ

France claims hostages in Gaza received medical supplies sent last year

“Reports suggest that recently released hostages from Hamas captivity acknowledged receiving some medical treatments during their imprisonment,” the source explained.

JANUARY 22, 2025ByANNA BARSKY
Visitors at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. September 25, 2024.

Hamas confirms next phase of hostage release to occur on Saturday as planned

An Israeli official told The Jerusalem Post: "The agreement said that the release needs to be on Saturday, and that's the date that the release will happen."

JANUARY 20, 2025ByAMICHAI STEIN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
A Hamas terrorist in front of hostage posters. (Illustrative)

Ninety Palestinian prisoners released as part of ceasefire deal

The prisoners had been transferred from various prisons across the country to the Ofer Prison in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

JANUARY 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Palestinian prisoners arrive at the Ofer prison, outside of Jerusalem as part of the deal between Israel and Hamas. January 19, 2025.

Hamas gave 'completion certificates' to released hostages with Red Cross signatures

The items inside the bag gave a clear depiction of the psychological torture methods Hamas used on captives.

JANUARY 19, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
Red Cross employee signing the Hamas certificate

Hostage survivor to Red Cross: Why hasn't your medicine reached the hostages?

Hostage survivors and their families pressed the Red Cross over the lack of medicine reaching the hostages in Gaza.

JANUARY 13, 2025ByURI SELA
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger poses before a briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, December 14, 2022.

Southern Lebanese call on Red Cross to provide basic needs to border area villages – interview

Originally from the Lebanon-Israel border area, A. discusses resilience against Hezbollah, disappointment with UNSC resolution 1701, urgent supply needs, and tabooed wishes for peaceful coexistence

NOVEMBER 7, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, southern Lebanon, June 25, 2024

Lebanese army says it fired on Israeli troops after second soldier killed in strike

Initially, the Lebanese military reported that an Israeli drone had struck an army unit working to enable the passage via the Marjeyoun-Hasbaya road of civilians to the town of Koukba.

OCTOBER 3, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Lebanese army soldiers secure the area of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment on al-Qaem street in Beirut's southern suburbs on September 26, 2024.

Ministers to Netanyahu: No Red Cross visits to Nukhba terrorists without hostage checks first

The High Court of Justice issued a conditional order according to which the state must explain why visits by the Red Cross's representatives to Israeli prisons should be prevented.

AUGUST 30, 2024ByYAKI ADAMKER
Israeli hostages are handed over to the International Red Cross at Rafah, this past week.

High Court: State must explain refusal to let Red Cross see Palestinian prisoners

The order follows a February petition from NGOs demanding that the Red Cross be allowed to visit and receive information on Palestinian prisoners.

AUGUST 26, 2024ByEVE YOUNG
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with president of the International Red Cross on December 14, 2023

My Word: Israel’s social cohesion vs. political divides

Haredi draft, hostage deal, and Hamas video. Israel's social cohesion was tested over the week as fear and lack of unity surges in Israel. "Together we will prevail,” is more than a slogan now.

JUNE 28, 2024ByLIAT COLLINS
An Israeli flag [Ilustrative]