With much of Gaza’s health infrastructure destroyed, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sent a tented 60-bed field hospital, now expanded to 110 beds. While originally designed to run self-sufficiently for only four months, it’s been operating since May 2024.

Driven by a desire to help vulnerable people, for the international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement our Fundamental Principles are enduring values that inform everything that we do.

This year marks 80 years since nuclear weapons were used in the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the decades since, people from across the world — as well as our international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement — have organised in opposition to the indiscriminate and immensely destructive force of these weapons.

Over recent months, relentless monsoon rains and glacial floods have devastated Pakistan, claiming almost 1000 lives and forcing tens of thousands from their homes.

A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Afghanistan on 31 August, causing widespread destruction across Kunar, Nangarhar, and Laghman provinces.