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Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel Julien Lerisson. (courtesy ICRC)
September 10, 2026, 6:57 pm
Red Cross meets officials at Israeli detention facility, not allowed to see Palestinian prisoners
Head of the ICRC in Israel calls talks and tour of carceral center ‘a step in the right direction’ and vows to continue pushing for resumption of visits to detainees
By Nava Freiberg
A vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrives outside Ofer military prison, located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the West Bank, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
September 8, 2026, 10:15 am
Red Cross to meet Israeli officials amid push to renew visits to Palestinian security prisoners
Talks this week at a detention facility aim at letting humanitarian group resume meeting inmates, which halted after Oct. 7; Ben Gvir pans High Court for ordering lifting of ban
By Nava Freiberg and Noam Lehmann
A Red Cross convoy escorts four released prisoners who were held in Israeli prisons as they arrive in the southern village of Mansouri, Lebanon, September 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
September 4, 2026, 4:34 pm
Red Cross hands four more civilians detained by Israel in security zone to Lebanon
AFP reports two are Syrian nationals, though Jerusalem had referred to all four as ‘Lebanese civilians’; PMO says they were interrogated and found to have no terror links
By ToI Staff, Nava Freiberg and Agencies
A Ukrainian FP-1 long-range attack drone is launched at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, August 16, 2026. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 25, 2026, 5:27 pm
UN and Red Cross step up call for restrictions on ‘killer robot’ weapons
Joint statement from agencies warns that world is ‘dangerously close to crossing a moral red line’ that would see ‘the autonomous targeting of humans by machines’
By Jamey Keaten
Hostage Rimon Buchshtab-Kirscht speaks to her Hamas captor as she is being released to the Red Cross in Gaza, November 28, 2023. (Screenshot via Al Jazeera)
July 20, 2026, 4:35 pm
‘I started cursing him in Arabic’: Ex-hostage reveals words to Hamas captor upon release
Rimon Buchshtab-Kirscht, whose defiant glare at terrorist upon release in Nov. 2023 went viral, mourns slain husband, recalls talking with Sinwar and Yarden Bibas, opens up about enduring sexual assault
By ToI Staff
Members of the Red Cross watch while Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release from Ketziot Prison as part of a deal in exchange for hostages held in Gaza, on February 26, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 30, 2026, 4:21 am
Bill to ban Red Cross visits to Palestinian prisoners fails as Haredim boycott vote
Coalition chief reportedly asked opposition MKs not to vote against measure but was rebuffed; Ben Gvir feuds with Shas as he rails at the ultra-Orthodox party for boycotting vote
By ToI Staff
A vehicle of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrives outside Ofer military prison, located between Ramallah and Beitunia in the West Bank, on January 19, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
June 3, 2026, 11:33 pm
High Court annuls government ban on Red Cross visits for Palestinian security prisoners
Court unanimously rules state must allow for visits, doesn’t give timeframe; government has justified ban by comparing conditions of Israeli hostages in Gaza, though none remain
By Jeremy Sharon
Trucks carrying medical supplies line up to bring equipment into Gaza for the expansion of a Red Cross field hospital coordinated by COGAT, May 8, 2026. (COGAT)
May 8, 2026, 7:16 pm
Hundreds of pallets of medical supplies enter Gaza for Red Cross field hospital
COGAT says dozens of trucks carrying advanced equipment, generators, medications and beds transferred to Strip amid health crisis
By ToI Staff, Nurit Yohanan and Reuters
First responders and residents gather at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's Tallet al-Khayyat neighborhood, on April 8, 2026. (Fadel ITANI / AFP) /
April 9, 2026, 9:50 am
Lebanese PM declares day of mourning after ‘unprecedented’ wave of IDF strikes
Lebanon says 182 dead, as IDF says it targeted ‘hundreds’ of Hezbollah operatives; Israel told residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to leave, but strikes in city’s center came without warning
By Agencies
Security personnel and officials gather next to buses with prisoners on board during an exchange of prisoners ceremony between Syrian authorities and Druze fighters, on the outskirts of Sweida on February 26, 2026. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
February 26, 2026, 1:52 pm
Syrian government forces and Druze factions exchange prisoners in Sweida
Under Red Cross supervision, Damascus releases 61 prisoners while Druze National Guard Forces free 25 Syrian government personnel
By Feras Dalatey
Screengrabs of a video showing Red Cross vehicles carrying the bodies and remains of dozens of slain Palestinians which were returned by Israel to the Gaza Strip, February 4, 2026. (X)
February 4, 2026, 11:47 pm
Israel returns remains of dozens of slain Palestinians to Gaza, Hamas health ministry says
Hamas says 54 bodies and 66 other boxes of human remains taken by Red Cross to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital for identification; Israel does not comment
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
Members of Syria's White Helmets civil defense service load boxes containing the remains of people found in the basement of a building in the city of al-Sbaynah, southwest of Damascus, on January 29, 2025. (Rami al SAYED / AFP)
December 8, 2025, 10:06 am
A year after Assad’s fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers
National commission probing fate of Syrians who vanished insists work must be careful, systematic; rights groups accuse it of slowing process by monopolizing information, resources
By Khalil Ashawi and Maya Gebeily
Julien Lerisson (courtesy)/ A Red Cross vehicle carrying the remains of a deceased hostage handed over by Hamas operatives heads toward the border crossing with Israel for transfer to Israeli authorities, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, December 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
December 5, 2025, 8:26 am
Lazar Focus: Did the Red Cross do all it could for hostages in Gaza?
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman reviews the troubling history of the International Committee of the Red Cross vis-a-vis the Jews with its head of delegation in Israel, Julien Lerisson
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
The two slain hostages whose bodies were still held captive in Gaza as of November 24, 2025: Sudthisak Rinthalak (left) and Ran Gvili. (Collage by Times of Israel; Photos: Courtesy)
December 3, 2025, 10:59 am
Israel says remains handed over by Hamas on Tuesday are not of the final 2 hostages
Forensic testing of remains delivered via Red Cross determines they are not of Ran Gvili or Sudthisak Rinthalak; Islamic Jihad says it’s searching for body in northern Gaza
By ToI Staff
Members of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) arrive at the site where Hamas operatives are searching for the remains of hostages in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, December 1, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)
December 2, 2025, 5:30 pm
Red Cross says Hamas handed over ‘small remains, pieces’ of a body; Israeli forensic experts checking
Hamas official said terror group was transferring hostage’s body, but no official statement made; Qatar says it hopes to push Israel and Hamas to next phase of truce ‘very soon’
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
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