Birthdays.
Anniversaries.
Holidays.
Special occasions.

For more than six months, those held hostage and their families have not been able to celebrate events and milestones together – the empty chairs at tables are a painful reminder each and every day of their absence.

🤒 Patients

👩🏽‍⚕️ 👨🏽‍⚕️ Healthcare workers

🏥 Hospitals

🚑 Ambulances

All must be protected under international humanitarian law (IHL). Even wars have limits.

⚖️The rules of war are clear.

Attacks against:
🏥 hospitals
🧑‍⚕️medical personnel
🚑 ambulances
disrupt healthcare services, limiting access for civilians and those in need.

They are #NotATarget .

Civilians must be protected.

In this ICRC blog, experts stress that EWIPA's Declaration success depends on turning political will into concrete actions, such as better military training, and sharing best practices to uphold IHL, among others.

Read more👉🏽 ms.spr.ly/6017Yy6pd

The destruction and harm inflicted upon civilians by heavy explosive weapons is not an acceptable nor inevitable by-product of urban warfare.

We call on all states to join the Political Declaration #EWIPAOslo

#Syria 💧 Water must be accessible to everyone, everywhere.

With Syrian Red Crescent, our teams finished a project in Idlib to provide about 5,000 people with water.

This included the rehabilitation of the station, providing a generator & 2 pumps and fixing the water tank.

📍Haiti | An increase in the number of wounded people has put enormous pressure on the few functioning hospitals in Port-au-Prince, as they run dangerously low on medical supplies amid a flare-up in armed violence.

Learn more about our response 👇🏽 ms.spr.ly/6013YHJR9

We are concerned about the recent violence in the West Bank.
Our statement below ⬇️

'We are witnessing a global & collective failure to protect civilians in armed conflicts': Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President.

Read her statement for the 1st follow-up conference for the implementation of the Declaration on explosive weapons 👇🏽

#EWIPAOslo
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🕊️Endorsing the Political Declaration is the first of many steps.

States must now translate political will into action to prevent the harm caused by explosive weapons in populated areas.

Join us in calling for change.

#EWIPA #IHL blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy… Laurent Gisel

When heavy explosive weapons hit cities, the visible horrors are just the beginning.

Over and over again, in armed conflicts worldwide, we see ongoing suffering.

Let's call for all States to sign the EWIPA Political Declaration. #EWIPAOslo

💊Medicine
💉Consumables
💧Infusion solution
🩹Dressing material
🛠️Quick fix supplies

🚚Following a recent attack in #Chernihiv , an ICRC team delivered emergency assistance to healthcare facilities.

🏥This will help medical professionals continue their life-saving work.

📆 23 May 2024

⌛️10.00 EST

📍Virtual event

Join Foreign Policy and ICRC for Principles of Humanity Under Pressure discussion #GC75

Register now: foreignpolicy.com/events/princip…

Heavy explosive weapons cause huge harm.

Lives shattered, cities ruined: no food, no water, no electricity. One year on, 85 States signed the #EWIPA political declaration to curb the use of heavy explosive weapons in urban warfare.

Let's call for ALL States to sign.

Climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss are reshaping our 🌎.

We support people affected by armed conflict and violence while addressing climate-related challenges and collaborating on environmental protection and climate adaptation 👇🏽 #EarthDay

Our health assistance in #Afghanistan include the support of critical programs such as pre-hospital care programs, donation of medical items, emergency/trauma care, health in detention & primary health care and more.

Learn more: bit.ly/3vEvjcD

📍Rakhine, Myanmar

Since the resumption of hostilities in Nov. 2023, we have seen a population struggling on all fronts: from meeting basic needs to fearing for safety.

Humanitarian access is severely limited, and the needs are drastically increasing 👇🏽

#Syria 🚰 We're helping provide safe #water to1.2 million people in Homs and Hama & the surrounding countryside.

Our teams provided & installed a power line for the water treatment plant in Al-Qusayr, in cooperation with Syrian Red Crescent & the Water Board in Hama 👇🏽

Haitian hospitals face a critical situation.

Recently we donated dressing sets, hygiene & cleaning products, and personal protective equipment to 4 hospitals in Port-au-Prince:

- Hôpital Bernard Mevs
- Hôpital Universitaire La Paix
- Hôpital St Luc
- Centre Hospitalier Fontaine

'The year of war was one of the most difficult years that I lived as a citizen and a volunteer in #Sudan .'

Wajdan Hassan Ahmed, a volunteer nurse with the Sudanese Red Crescent, describes the Sudan conflict's impact on millions of people. 👇