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.

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

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

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


'She understood our pain': Hostage mothers meet with Red Cross president in Geneva

“We felt the president was sincere in her response and assured us that she would do everything in her power to help," Galia David, the mother of Evyatar David.

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Int'l Red Cross, WHO, call for the release of the hostages in Gaza in joint statement

The International Red Cross and the World Health Organization call for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages.

 International Red Cross vehicles drive by on the day of the handover of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander to the International Red Cross, in the Gaza Strip May 12, 2025.

'Hamas has obligation': Hostage forum skeptical on Hamas promise to allow aid to reach hostages

Hamas is ready to deliver Red Cross aid to the hostages it is holding in Gaza if Israel opens humanitarian corridors permanently.

Demonstrators protest, calling for the release of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip, in Tel Aviv, July 26, 2025

Hamas claims it is willing to cooperate with ICRC to deliver food, aid to hostages

Their statement came after a conversation between Netanyahu and the regional head of the Red Cross.

 HAMAS TERRORISTS keep guard on the day Hamas handed over deceased hostages, in Khan Yunis, Feb. 20, 2025.

Red Cross to be 'neutral humanitarian mediator' as Netanyahu urges it to provide hostages aid

"Hamas's lie of starvation resonates around the world, while the actual systematic starvation is against our hostages who suffer brutal physical and mental abuse," he said.

 International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC) vehicles drive by on the day of the handover of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander to the International Red Cross, in the Gaza Strip May 12, 2025.

Multiple IDF sources fail to address report of arrest of Hamas Health Ministry official

Marwan Al-Hams, a senior official in the Hamas-run Health Ministry, was "abducted" by Israeli forces while on his way to visit the ICRC field hospital in northern Rafah.

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2025; illustrative.

IDF gunfire wounds ICRC, Red Crescent team during rescue mission in Gaza Strip - report

The IDF told the Jerusalem Post that it is aware of reports of an ICRC and Palestinian Red Crescent worker being fired on, and the incident is being investigated.

 A Red Cross vehicle stands near missile remnants surrounded with tape, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 17, 2025.

A million more Afghans could be sent back from Iran, Red Cross warns

"(We) are anticipating that an additional one million people, possibly more, may return from Iran to Afghanistan by the end of this year," said Sami Fakhouri.

 Afghan nationals with their belongings gather as they head back to Afghanistan, after Pakistan intensified its deportation campaign, forcing undocumented Afghans to leave the country, at the Torkham border crossing, Pakistan April 7, 2025.

What can be learned from the IDF inquiry into killing of medics in Gaza? – analysis

The IDF did discipline officers for their actions in the event, it also does not explain questions like how the number of terrorists is determined after a firefight.

  Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025.

IDF fires Golani commander, censures brigade chief over killing of 14 Gaza medics

The military also admitted that its initial reports on the incident, based on reports from soldiers on the ground, were false.

 Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered, according to the Red Crescent, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip March 31, 2025