… Julien Chassany, ICRC head of programmes for Israel and the Occupied Territories The Red … within the evacuation zone issued by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) – making access …
… Under international humanitarian law, Israel has an obligation to use all means …
… medical personnel, and humanitarian aid. In Israel and the occupied territories , the ICRC …
30-03-2025 Gaza (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross is appalled that eight medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society were killed while carrying out their work, along with first …
24-03-2025 Gaza (ICRC): Today, an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Rafah was damaged by an explosive projectile despite being clearly marked and notified to all …
… the resumption of hostilities in Gaza and Israel to escalating violence in Yemen, … reuniting families, in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, Yemen and Syria. …
19-03-2025 Gaza (ICRC) – Over the last 36 hours in Gaza, staff at the Red Cross Field Hospital have been working relentlessly to provide life-saving treatment to a high number of patients, many of …
… phase of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas has ended. This was a … pain. Thirty hostages returned to Israel alive, eight deceased were returned for … detainees were released. I was not in Israel on October 7. But when I arrived, it …
… goods. Under international humanitarian law, Israel shall ensure that the basic needs of …
02-03-2025 The following is a statement attributable to Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Geneva (ICRC)—The ceasefire agreement has saved countless lives …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
