TEL AVIV: Israel has formally banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian prisoners detained under its controversial “unlawful combatants” law, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Wednesday. Katz said the decision was made on national security grounds, stating that allowing ICRC access to detainees could endanger the state and its […]
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Red Cross, Egyptian teams search beyond Gaza ceasefire line for hostage bodies
The Red Cross and Egyptian recovery teams have been granted permission to enter areas beyond the “yellow line” marking Israel’s military pullback in the Gaza Strip to search for the bodies of deceased hostages, an Israeli government spokesperson confirmed on Sunday. The Egyptian team, equipped with an excavator and bulldozers, began operations after receiving clearance, […]
Hamas Returns One More Hostage’s Body as Ceasefire Holds in Gaza
Hamas returned the remains of one more Israeli hostage to the Red Cross on Friday night, saying it remains committed to handing over all bodies still trapped under Gaza’s rubble after two years of war. Israel confirmed it received the coffin and said the body will be identified at a medical center. The exchange took […]
Heatwaves will make entire regions uninhabitable within decades: UN, Red Cross
GENEVA: Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday. Heatwaves are predicted to “exceed human physiological and social limits” in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and south and southwest Asia, with extreme events […]
2,700 migrants reach Spain’s Ceuta enclave in one day
At least 2,700 migrants, about a thousand of them minors, reached Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on Monday, Spanish officials said, a record in a single day. A spokesman for the Spanish government delegation in Ceuta said the numbers arriving Monday were unprecedented. The migrants had reached the enclave by swimming or walking at […]
Fearful and fenced in: foreign children of IS face indefinite stay in Iraq
The children ran along the narrow enclosure, screaming, fighting and crying for the attention of the prison worker distributing sweets and balloons. Bug-bitten toddlers, too small to walk, clung to the sides of the chain link fence, staring blankly. Through the fence of their makeshift playground, the older children held out dirt-covered hands for the […]
Ortega ready to continue Nicaragua talks
The government of President Daniel Ortega said Monday it was ready to continue talks with the opposition on resolving Nicaragua’s deadly political crisis. The Central American country has been gripped by a year of political crisis since months of street protests erupted last April leaving more than 325 people dead, most of them opposition demonstrators. […]
International Red Cross ready for Venezuela humanitarian aid operation
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday it was prepared to channel humanitarian aid to Venezuela through an operation that could be similar to one in Syria, potentially helping ease chronic hunger and disease in the South American nation. President Nicolas Maduro in February blocked efforts by political […]