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Red Cross vehicles arrive in central Gaza for further release of Israeli hostages

February 22, 2025 4:04 pm

A crowd of hundreds of Palestinians were gathered in the town in preparation for the handover of hostages.

Four women Israeli soldiers, who had been held in Gaza since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, are handed over by Hamas militants to members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Saturday as part of a ceasefire and a hostages-prisoners swap deal between Hamas and Israel, in this screen grab from a video. (Reuters Photo)

Hamas hands four Israeli hostages over to Red Cross in Gaza in second exchange since ceasefire

January 25, 2025 3:52 pm

200 Palestinian prisoners expected to be released; soldiers being released were at observation post near Gaza.

Ludhiana admin distributes 1 lakh pencils to needy children

April 29, 2022 1:17 am

After Deputy Commissioner Surabhi Malik launched this project from Red Cross Bal Bhawan in Sarabha Nagar, district officials visited various orphanages and slums where these pencils were distributed to the needy.

Russia in broad retreat from Kyiv, seeking to regroup from battering

April 03, 2022 11:01 am

Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian attacks continued unabated, and the Pentagon has cautioned that the formations near Kyiv could be repositioning for renewed assaults.

Red Cross: Yemen prison airstrike killed, injured over 100

January 21, 2022 10:13 pm

The intense campaign comes after the Houthis claimed a drone and missile attack that struck inside the capital of the United Arab Emirates earlier in the week.

Two International Red Cross workers abducted in eastern Congo

November 30, 2021 9:53 pm

It was not immediately clear who was behind the kidnapping.

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Red Cross says conditions not right for Rohingyas to return

November 15, 2018 7:53 am

The organisation said that the conflict between the Rohingya and Myanmar's government is not resolved and added that there is no place to go back to because "so many villages" are flattened in Myanmar's Rakhine state, where the Rohingya live.

Annapurna Scheme: Red Cross to prepare meals at PGI sarai; institute clueless

June 03, 2018 11:41 am

Around 3,000-3,500 packets of food are made daily by the Red Cross and then supplied to different parts of the city. Five vans are operating currently in the city to provide food, officials said.