Destination Damascus (video)
Ghadeer Zahwa is a student from the Golan, and studies in Damascus University to be a dentist. With the help of the ICRC, Ghadeeer could cross to Syria to continue her education. “There is fear, of...
View ArticleRefugees in Lebanon: A father’s hope (video)
ICRC financial support is enabling a physical rehabilitation centre in Tripoli, Lebanon, to providing artificial limbs for victims of the war in Syria. Before Diyaa’ can receive his new leg, he will...
View ArticleICRC alarmed over unacceptable use of explosive weapons in urban areas
Warfare in urban settings presents challenges that need addressing. All parties to armed conflicts must take steps to protect civilians from the effects of hostilities. Operating from within urban...
View ArticleSyria: Fighting in Quneitra and Dara’a displaces over 100,000 people
In September, fighting in and around the governorates of Quneitra and Dara’a intensified, displacing over 100,000 people to Damascus and Rural Damascus. Here is an update about our activities in...
View ArticleSyria: key operation begins to bring aid to people in besieged areas
News release Damascus / Geneva – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working alongside the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) and the United Nations (UN), has begun delivering vital aid...
View ArticleICRC calls for immediate and simultaneous lifting of all sieges across Syria
News Release – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says that, as a matter of urgency, and because of overwhelming humanitarian needs, all sieges being carried out across Syria must be...
View ArticleA World in Turmoil
January 2016 Video Dominik Stillhart, the ICRC’s Director of Operations, discusses the humanitarian state of the world in 2016 Some of the photos have been provided courtesy of Reuters The post A...
View ArticleSyrian refugees in Jordan: Fear, anxiety and hope – all part of daily life
For Syrian refugees living in Jordan life is a daily struggle. Humanitarian assistance makes their lives a little easier, but life is a constant mix of fear, anxiety and hope for a better future. Read...
View ArticleSyria Pledging Conference: ICRC President’s call to the international community
Speech given by Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the Syria Pledging Conference 2016 in London. Click here to read the speech The post Syria Pledging...
View ArticleLebanon: Syrian refugees fifth winter away from home
video – As the conflict in Syria shows no sign of abating, many refugees are going through their fifth consecutive winter in Lebanon. For many who live in inadequate conditions, winter is adding to...
View ArticleSyria: “Time to end this horrendous war” says ICRC president
ICRC News Release, 26 February 2016 The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, has urged the parties to the Syrian conflict to allow aid deliveries to all...
View ArticleSyria crisis: Five years into the conflict, Syria is at breaking point
The war has brought colossal suffering on millions of people in Syria. Five years of violence has brought death and destruction to Syria. Millions of people have been forced from their homes or have...
View ArticleSyria: Aleppo on the brink of humanitarian disaster
News Release, 28 April 2016 Damascus/Geneva – The intense battles raging in Aleppo, which have seen a key hospital destroyed with significant loss of life, are putting millions at grave risk, the...
View ArticleEven wars have limits: Health-care workers and facilities must be protected
Speech given by Mr Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, at the United Nations Security Council Briefing, 3 May 2016, New York, USA “Even wars have limits, because wars without limits are wars without...
View ArticleSyria: Aleppo “One of the most devastating urban conflicts”
The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, has described the fight for the Syrian city of Aleppo as one of the most devastating conflicts in modern times. Fighting has...
View ArticleSyria: Attack on humanitarian convoy is an attack on humanity
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) are outraged by last night’s...
View ArticleICRC plea to all sides to spare human life in eastern Aleppo
ICRC – News release No. 16/127 13th December 2016, 3:00 AM Thousands of civilians’ lives are in danger as frontlines close in around them in eastern Aleppo. As the battle reaches new peaks and the area...
View ArticleYnet Wrap-up of the ICRC’s Operations in 2016: “Someone is taking care of...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 2016 year in pictures, published in Ynet in Hebrew, 28.12.2016: Around the world, ICRC staff provided assistance this past year to areas that had...
View ArticleSyria Street: In Lebanon, one street both divides and unites
Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city, was for several years the scene of recurrent outbreaks of violence between the marginalized neighborhoods of Bab el-Tebbaneh and Jabal Mohsen. The two...
View ArticleInternational Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and Syrian Arab Red Crescent...
8 February 2017 The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) condemn today’s...
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