Preserving humanity in times of conflict demands strict abidance by constraints on conventional weapons
… loss of life. Civilians in Gaza and Israel are forced to endure tremendous …
… loss of life. Civilians in Gaza and Israel are forced to endure tremendous …
… issues related to the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza. President Mirjana Spoljaric … hostages held in Gaza, as well as with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders. About the …
… Affected children. Credit: ICRC Archives Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, … warm themselves in this hall. Credit: ICRC Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, …
… President Spoljaric will also meet with Israel's foreign minister and health minister … devastating humanitarian impacts in Gaza and Israel, we continue to urge the parties to …
12-11-2023 Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urgently calls for the protection of civilians in Gaza trapped in fighting, whether they are trying to evacuate or …
10-11-2023 Gaza (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is urgently calling for the respect and protection of medical facilities, patients and health-care workers in Gaza. …
… The suffering we have seen unfold in Gaza and Israel is intolerable: the tragic loss of many … communities in Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel, including by supporting the essential … Crescent Society (PRCS), Magen David Adom in Israel (MDA), and other members of the …
Statement Jerusalem (ICRC) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply troubled that its humanitarian convoy in Gaza City came under fire on Tuesday. The ICRC reminds the parties …
… (ICRC) – One month on, civilians in Gaza and Israel are being forced to endure tremendous … Red Crescent Society and Magen David Adom in Israel, alongside UN and other humanitarian …
… of intense violence Renewed hostilities in Israel and Gaza –unprecedented in scale and … injured, many of them young children. In Israel, families of over 240 hostages have no … 31 days of terrible suffering. Over 200,000 Israelis remain displaced from their homes. In …
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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.