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


Jewish org. urges Red Cross to provide hostages with Matzah for Passover

Ayelet Hashachar, an Israeli non-profit, expressed that the organization was willing to provide the Matzah for transfer.

 Matzah

The IDF must be more transparent when innocent Gazans are killed – editorial

The IDF's zigzag on the killing of 14 Red Cross workers proves the need for transparency during the fog of the Israel-Hamas War.

 The ICRC operates in the Gaza Strip.

What happened on day 547 of the war?

IDF revises report of Red Cross medics' killing • Hamas publishes hostage video • Former hostages Omer Wenkert, Liri Albag, and Gadi Moses speak at Tel Aviv rally • IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorists

 Scenes of an impact from a Hamas rocket in Ashkelon, April 6, 2025.

IDF tries to reset narrative on mistaken killing of 14 Gazan aid workers

The Jerusalem Post was not provided with other cases in which the IDF used such a procedure to leave bodies of aid workers for the UN.

 IDF troops operating and concluding the encirclement of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah, March 23, 2025.

Red Cross 'outraged' at deaths of eight medics, killed on duty in Gaza

This incident represents the "single most deadly attack on Red Cross Red Crescent workers anywhere in the world since 2017," IFRC reported.

 Palestine Red Crescent Society first responders console each other at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis during the return of the bodies of killed colleagues, March 30, 2025.

Myanmar earthquake death toll reaches 2,719 as aid rushes in

In some areas near the epicenter, residents told Reuters that government assistance was scarce, leaving people to fend for themselves.

 Commuters drive past a building that collapsed, in the aftermath of a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 30, 2025.

Red Cross 'gravely concerned' for Red Crescent medics missing in Gaza

The Red Cross said it had not had contact with the crew since March 23.

Red Cross vehicles pictured in the Gaza Strip in a previous hostage exchange.

IDF uncovers Hamas terror building in school during Rafah op.

During the operation, the troops located several tank shells within the Hamas infrastructure that was being used as a school.

Weapons discovered and destroyed in a Hamas terror infrastructure that previously served as a school, March 27, 2025.

IDF says forces fired at Red Cross building due to incorrect identification

According to the IDF, troops on the ground thought they saw suspicious figures near the building and felt they were endangered.

Red Cross vehicles pictured in the Gaza Strip in a previous hostage exchange.

Hamas's unpunished Geneva Convention violations sets a dangerous precedent - opinion

The enforcement of the Geneva Conventions lies in states themselves, and therein lies the weak spot in IHL: The laws seem to protect on paper but are difficult to enforce in practice.

 A drone view shows Hamas militants gathering around Red Cross vehicles in Gaza, February 2025.