Monthly Middle East and North Africa newsletter – May 2020: Our response to COVID-19
… measures implemented to contain the outbreak. Israel and the Occupied Territories. The ICRC …
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Empress Shôken Fund announces 103rd funding distribution to support projects in 17 countries
… work. Lebanon The renewed hostilities between Israel and Hamas and other armed groups in the …
Health-care providers, patients suffer thousands of attacks on health-care services over the past five years, ICRC data show
… the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel and the occupied territories, and …
ICRC at the UN: Urban warfare, digital threats and prisoners of war obligations are all humanitarian issues of high importance
… like Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Sahel …
Gaza’s Youth: Suspended Lives, Fading Opportunities
… Fifteen years of restrictions imposed by Israel on the movement of goods and People in …
Occupation
… law From the Humanitarian Law and Policy blog Israel and the occupied territories: how …
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 …
Report: Protracted conflict and humanitarian action
… Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon, Iran-Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Afghanistan and Somalia have … Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War between Israel and Arab States, the Falklands/Malvinas … conflicts. Some conflicts, like those in Israel-Palestine, Sri Lanka and even Colombia, …
Gaza: survey shows heavy toll of chronic power shortages on exhausted families
… 100 countries. The ICRC has been present in Israel and the occupied territories since … programmes. The ICRC visits detainees in Israeli and Palestinian places of detention … Red Crescent Society and Magen David Adom in Israel. For more information, please contact: …
Conduct of hostilities: Challenges in today’s armed conflicts
… 1999 to 2005, he carried out assignments in Israel and the occupied territories, Eritrea, … precautions in air and missile warfare" , Israel Yearbook of Human Rights , Vol. 44, …
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