Red Cross

According to local and international estimates, thousands of Palestinians in Gaza remain displaced after the Israeli attack there. A more than two-year-long blockade is preventing building supplies from entering...

A public campaign has been launched for the release from Israeli detention of the writer and journalist Ali Jaradat, 57, who was abducted from his home in Ramallah almost...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES From in front of the house of one of the longest serving prison veterans from the Gaza Strip; 57 year old Salim Ali al-Kayal who is serving...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The Palestinian International Red Cross Foundation has funded the establishment of a water treatment plant in the Gaza Strip. Built in Rafah at the southern end of...

Ismail Haniyeh, the elected head of the Palestinian government in Gaza, has called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to put pressure the Israeli Occupation to...

The female Palestinian prisoners of Al-Damon prison have called on the International Red Cross to put pressure on the Israeli authorities to close the "the worst jail ever," as...

It now seems clear that the Red Cross and, indeed, members of Israel's parliament, are being stopped by Israeli intelligence services from finding out the location of what has...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES Israel released 34 year old Palestinian prisoner, Mohammed Abu Labadah, this month following his completion of a twelve year sentence. Labadah's is a harrowing story which includes...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The Palestinian footballer Mahmoud al-Sarsak has reached his 88th day of continual hunger strike in protest at being held in an Israeli prison for the past three...

The International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip has said that it has not received any information from the Israeli authorities regarding visit schedules for Gazan...

Palestinian sources in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank, have accused illegal Jewish settlers of setting fire to hundreds of acres of agricultural land. The land in question is...

Prisoners' support groups have said that the families of around 100 prisoners from Gaza in Israeli jails will be able to visit their loved ones from next month. Visits...

Palestinian human rights sources have revealed that Bilal Diab, Thaer Hlahalah and Jaafar Izz al-Din, who have been on hunger strike in an Israeli prison for more than two...

An official Palestinian report has accused the International Committee of the Red Cross of failing to protect Palestinian prisoners "who are exposed to massive violations of their rights and...

EXCLUSIVE PICTURES The High Follow-up Committee for Prisoner Affairs in Nablus, in the north of the occupied West Bank, held a solidarity vigil today in support of Palestinian prisoners...

Israeli settlers have attacked a Red Cross bus carrying relatives of Palestinian prisoners from Bethlehem being held in Israel's jails. The bus was attacked by the settlers in Beit...

Israeli Prison Services carry out "planned, severe violations" against Palestinian prisoners that have transformed prisons into a "dirty killing and liquidation tool", a leaked letter from the prisons has...

Israel has condemned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for interviewing the deputy chairman of a Turkish welfare organisation. Hussein Oruc's NGO, known by its acronym IHH,...

The Waed Organisation for Prisoners and Former Prisoners organised on Monday an Iftar (fast-breaking meal) in front of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza for the families of Palestinian...

PHOTOS To mark the occasion of World Humanitarian Day, the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip organized an exhibition and competition for photographers about humanitarian...

Red Cross described Israeli siege as "collective punishment" of Gaza's civilian population as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, calling on Israel to lift it. The International Committee of...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Peter Maurer met Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as well as...

As a young soldier returns home to assuage the "righteous indignation" of a nation state, no longer "sensitive to its image of democracy", one can only agonise on...