Geneva, 11 March 2025: The situation in Gaza has been dire for 16 months with chronic shortages of electricity and water.   

Geneva, 18 March 2025: Paramedics and emergency medical teams from Palestine Red Crescent have been responding in Gaza after airstrikes overnight. 

Medical facilities across the Gaza Strip are overwhelmed - the recent bombardments are compounding a desperate situation.   

As of 7am today in Gaza, Palestine Red Crescent teams have responded to 149 fatalities and 179 injuries. Women and children were among the casualties. Areas around Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis have been the hardest hit. 

Twelve months after her last visit, the IFRC president returns to the border between Egypt and Gaza to find people in even more dire circumstances and humanitarians working harder than ever to keep hope alive.

By Kate Forbes, President of IFRC

Geneva, 29 March 2025: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is standing with the Palestine Red Crescent and calling for urgent access and information following seven days of silence on the fate of nine medics in Gaza. 

The IFRC is gravely concerned for the ambulance crews of the Palestine Red Crescent who came under heavy gunfire while responding in the early hours of 23 March in the Al-Hashashin area of Rafah. Since then, there has been no communication with the teams. 

Geneva, 30 March 2025: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is outraged at the deaths of eight medics from Palestine Red Crescent Society, killed on duty in Gaza. 

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain responds further to killing of eight Palestine Red Crescent medics in Guardian op-ed article.

The following op-ed article by IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain was first published by the UK Guardian on 5 April, 2025. 

*🇵🇸Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza 🇵🇸*

*Press Statement*

*🛑 The Israeli occupation's prevention of the entry of polio vaccines into the Gaza Strip poses a time bomb that threatens to spread the epidemic*

*👈🏻Preventing the entry of vaccines is an indirect targeting of children in the Gaza Strip*

The American doctor @FerozeSidhwa gives important testimony about the Israeli occupation’s bombing of Nasser Hospital and calls on the United States and European countries to stop sending weapons so this insanity stops
 

The Red Cross Field Hospital was established and opened on 9 May 2024, and is implemented in coordination with the Palestine Red Crescent Society and supported by Red Cross Societies of Australia, Austria, Canada, China (Hong Kong branch), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

It is located in Rafah area of the Gaza Strip, and it's sole purpose is to provide medical services to civilians affected by the current armed conflict.