#INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS

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Lorenzo Tondo at The Guardian:

Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours have killed at least 38 people in Gaza, health officials in the Palestinian territory have said, bringing the death toll to more than 100 in less than three days. An attack on a tent housing displaced people in the central city of Deir al-Balah killed a mother and her two children, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Another strike in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza killed at least five, including two women and a child, it added. Civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said some people were still under the debris, as “the civil defence does not have search equipment or heavy equipment to lift the rubble to rescue the wounded and recover the martyrs.” Two more people, including a woman who was seven months pregnant, were killed in an attack targeting tents sheltering displaced people around Nuseirat in central Gaza, said Bassal. Sunday’s death toll includes the civil defence’s director of operations, Ashraf Abu Nar, and his wife, who were killed in a strike on their home in Nuseirat, according to Bassal. Local media reports said that in Jabaliya, journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members had been killed by an airstrike that hit his house earlier in the day. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement that two of its staff, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal, had been killed in a strike on a house in Khan Younis on Saturday.

“Their killing points to the intolerable civilian death toll in Gaza. The ICRC reiterates its urgent call for a ceasefire and for the respect and protection of civilians, including medical, humanitarian relief, and civil defence personnel,” the ICRC statement added.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday it had targeted more than 100 sites across the territory over the weekend, despite aid agencies warning that the Palestinian population is plunging deeper into malnutrition and famine.

More Israel war crimes: IOF killed at least 38 in Gaza.

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AP, via HuffPost: Israel's Latest Strikes In Gaza Kill 38 People Including Children

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Amid an ongoing spat with the Red Cross, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen demanded Wednesday that the group visit the 240 hostages Israeli believes are being held captive by Hamas in the Gaza Strip and harshly criticized the organization’s conduct.

The foreign minister told the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, that the ICRC must demand to meet and provide medical assistance to all the hostages, Cohen’s office said.

“The Red Cross has no right to exist if it does not succeed in visiting the hostages being held captive by the Hamas terror group,” Cohen told Spoljaric, and noted that “children, women and Holocaust survivors” are being held captive.

“The Red Cross must act decisively and with a clear voice and utilize all leverage it has to push for a visit to the hostages as soon as possible,” Cohen added.

Cohen’s statements came after the Red Cross sent a letter on Tuesday to the Israel Prison Service, cautioning the state about a wartime law passed in the Knesset two weeks ago that allows National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to worsen the conditions of security prisoners if a “prison emergency” were to be declared.

The foreign minister criticized the ICRC for focusing on Israel, “which is bound by international law and acts in accordance with it,” instead of the enormous humanitarian crisis created by Hamas.

Prison Service commissioner Katy Perry, in a statement Wednesday, said that the Red Cross would not be allowed to visit Palestinian terror prisoners held in Israeli jails until the organization is able to provide assistance to the Israeli hostages in Gaza.

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The international committe of the red cross is intentionally ignoring dozens of call for help from Gaza.

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 🚨 ICRC CALLS ISRAEL'S TARGETING OF AMBULANCES "UNACCEPTABLE" AND DECLARES THE COST OF NOT UPHOLDING INTERNATIONAL LAW "UNBEARABLE"

In a news release issued by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC slams Israel's "military siege" on Gaza, as Gaza's 2.3 million people are "deprived of food, water and medicine.. leaving people without the essentials to survive."

The ICRC also highlighted the need for safe and sustained access to humanitarian aid for Gaza and stressed the dire need for the restoration of critical services like Healthcare, water and electricity, calling them "a lifesaving priority".

"Massive bombardments are gutting civilian infrastructure across Gaza, sowing the seeds of hardship for generations to come," the ICRC railed against Israel's crimes in its news release.

Among the most shocking impact is the agony children have had to bear. Children have been ripped from their families and held hostage. In Gaza, ICRC surgeons treat toddlers whose skin is charred from widespread burns,” ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric is quoted as saying.

“What more must children endure? The images of suffering, dead and wounded children will haunt us all. This is a moral failing.”

The ICRC pointed to both sides' obligations under International Humanitarian Law, saying civilians must be spared from military operations and offered their willingness to assist in the negotiations with Hamas to return hostages being held.

"The hostages must be released immediately. They play no part in this conflict and we reiterate our offer as neutral actor to facilitate any future release operation," President Spoljaric said.

The ICRC news release goes on to slam "Scenes of damaged hospitals and ambulances" as "unacceptable".

The news release continues by pointing to the many humanitarian workers killed in Israeli bombing and highlights how the medical facilities being targeted are sanctuaries fo civilians hiding from Israeli bombs.

"Tragically, medics from both the Palestine Red Crescent and Magen David Adom, alongside UN and other humanitarian workers, have been killed in the last month while working to help others," the news release says.

"Medical facilities are sanctuaries for the sick and wounded, as well as for the thousands of displaced people seeking refuge. They must be protected. The human cost of not doing so is unbearable."

The news release ends by talking about the agony for families waiting for news about loved ones in the Gaza Strip being hammered by Israeli bombing raids.

"One month on, families face an agonizing wait for news of their loved ones, while the conflict has killed, maimed and displaced far too many men, women and children. The sides must deescalate now to prevent yet more suffering."

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13 Israeli captives and 7 foreign-nationals have been handed over to the Red Cross, they'll be going through Rafah and Egypt first

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🚨My father has spent four years in a Myanmar prison – I won’t rest until he’s free | The Independent🚨

Suddenly, I was no longer just an artist or an educator – I was a target, writes Sai, who has been in hiding since the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021

Even the International Committee of the Red Cross refused to register him as a prisoner.

Oppression thrives in silence. Will you stay silent?

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Nothing illustrates Red Cross hostility and contempt for Israel more vividly than the organization’s refusal for sixty years to admit Israel’s relief organization Magen David Adom (MDA) into its ranks or its ongoing capitulation to Arab demands that the Jewish group use a red diamond instead of the Star of David.

During the 1950s the International Committee of the Red Cross granted official recognition and membership status to relief groups that use other emblems such as the Muslim Red Crescent and Persian Red Lion; but it refused to sanction the Magen David emblem as a protected symbol. Israel thus was faced with two options: accept the Christian cross or Muslim crescent as its emblem or be excluded. It chose exclusion.

The rejection of MDA was more than a refusal of status equality and the generous financial assistance granted to Red Cross sister agencies. It was also a refusal of protection. Hospitals ambulances and medical workers identified by a Red Cross Red Crescent or Red Lion (until the Iranian Revolution of 1979) are protected by international humanitarian law. By contrast personnel and equipment identified by a Magen David are deprived of this safeguard.

Thus a bitter irony played out whereby the ICRC was sheltering Palestinian ambulances that were often used to transport terrorists and weaponry while refusing protection to MDA ambulances rushing to aid the victims of terrorism.

Admitting Israel

The tide began to slowly turn in 1999 with the appointment of Dr. Bernadine Healy as president and CEO of the American Red Cross. Healy was infuriated by the blatant injustice of Israel’s exclusion from the ICRC. Almost immediately upon taking office she took the bull by the horns.

“We are a country that doesn't exclude. You don't belong to a country club that excludes blacks or Jews” she told her board members. She noted that MDA had saved hundreds of thousands of lives — Jewish and non-Jewish — throughout its history and added that in the previous decade MDA had trained many members of the International Red Cross in emergency medical skills ranging from basic first aid to complex trauma treatment.

Speaking at a Red Cross convention in Geneva Healy said the exclusion of MDA is “a betrayal of the sacred principles of this movement and cannot be tolerated any longer” who which Red Cross President Cornelio Sommaruga countered angrily asking “If we're going to have the Shield of David why would we not have to accept the swastika?"

Astounded at the comparison Healy began to grasp that hostility to Israel was deeply embedded in the world body. Undeterred she translated her views into aggressive action. She suspended American Red Cross dues payments to the international organization amounting to $5 million annually or about one quarter of the ICRC’s annual budget until the parent organization changed its policy toward Israel. Eventually the withheld dues began to cut heavily into Red Cross programs and the organization finally indicated it was ready to negotiate.

But Healy’s courageous stand cost her her job. Healy lost a no-confidence vote by the America Red Cross board who also voted to resume partial payment of dues to the Geneva organization.  The move undercut Healy’s authority and forced her to step down in 2001. Although Red Cross board chairman David McLaughlin protested that the board had not pushed Healy out. Standing beside him Healy insisted “I don’t think that’s true.”

Former US Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger called her departure “a tragedy for the American Red Cross and revealed that Healy had acted upon his advice in withholding ICRC dues. Eagleburger praised her single-minded stance with the world organization and decried the “weak people” who “succumbed to the blandishments of Red Cross apologists” and abandoned the idealistic stance of Dr. Healy.

“She rightly saw it for what it is… an immoral policy. One that looks and smells too much like a certain country’s infamous policies of the 1930's and 1940's” he said.

Hollow Victory

Despite Healy’s departure the campaign she had begun acquired momentum. Geneva continued to drag its feet but American pressure finally produced results. Israel’s MDA was admitted to the International Red Cross in June 2006 when the all 189 Red Cross and Red Crescent societies voted on the matter. 98 groups voted in favor 27 against and 10 abstained.

Uultimately however it was a hollow victory for Israel. The international organization rejected the Star of David emblem and Israel was forced to agree to place its red star inside a new emblem—a red square—when operating in countries outside its own borders. In countries that object to the Magen David emblem Israel had to agree to use the red square alone when delivering relief.

Many observers criticized the deal saying that forbidding the symbol of Judaism while admitting Christian and Islamic symbols were rank anti-Semitism. The Wall Street Journal editorialized that “it is a disgrace that the Star of David which symbolized the faith that spawned both Christianity and Islam is excluded.” The New York Sun called their editorial on the issue “The Hate that Endures.”

“Press releases were flooding the wires yesterday exulting in the news that Israel's Magen David Adom [would finally gain admission] to the International Committee of the Red Cross” The Sun wrote. “But it wasn't actually the red Star-of-David symbol that the signatories endorsed.

“No instead of allowing the actual symbol used by the Israelis the diplomats forged a compromise by which a red square would be added to Israel’s ambulances [operating outside the borders of Israel]… what this means is that ambulances displaying just a red Star of David won't be protected on international missions. It's an illuminating moment reminding us of the hate that endures for Jews and the Jewish State.”

Re: Red Cross not visiting Israeli hostages. Red Cross has been visiting and working as diligently as possible towards getting hostages released. It is a difficult situation and dangerous for everyone.

Source: I work for the Red Cross

That’s literally a lie as multiple hostages have said otherwise. Just because the organisation claims to do this, doesn’t mean they did…

Your Source: trust me bro

Well, I’m an Israeli who does her research. The Red Cross only got involved recently with transportation of the hostages- and they have not been handling it well either:

1. The hostages did not receive proper health care while held hostage for almost 2 months.

The Red Cross didn’t even contact them at all until the recent exchange deal!

-Many were rushed to surgery as soon as they were returned to Israel .

-An elderly woman has been airlifted to hospital, and she is currently in critical condition.

2.Violent mobs are attacking those transportation cars while they’re delivering the hostages.

3. Hamas terrorists continued to threaten the hostages as they were exchanged: they posed them and told them to wave / smile.

They filmed it all and made a spectacle out of it.

4. Unlike the deal’s terms, families were separated: fathers and uncles left behind, mothers separated from their children…

5.Women were tested for rape / pregnancy for the first time in the Israeli hospitals.

6. Hospitals were used by Hamas to hold hostages - where were the Red Cross?? How did this happen under their watch?

The Red Cross has failed these people time and time again.

I could go on but I think I’ve made my point.

Did you even do a simple google search or do you hate Jews/ Israelis that much?

Once again, don’t believe Hamas’ propaganda.

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NAF, ICRC Strengthen Collaboration On Adherence To International Humanitarian Laws

NAF, ICRC Strengthen Collaboration On Adherence To International Humanitarian Laws In efforts aimed at fortifying partnership, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) have both stressed the need to intensify their collaboration in promoting International Humanitarian Laws (IHL). The ICRC, renowned for its impartial and humanitarian missions worldwide,…

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Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon “Give Peace a Chance” This Holiday Season

- Mother/son team donate 50 acetates to charitable organizations

Yoko Ono and Sean Ono Lennon donated 50 limited-edition acetates of “Give Peace a Chance” and “Remember Love” to 50 charities, nonprofits and care organizations.

“Happy Holidays. To raise the spirit of peace and love this December, here is one of only 50 limited-edition acetates that have been hand-cut at Abbey Road,” Sean Ono Lennon said in a note accompanying each record.

“It’s yours – to sell, auction, raise money to help your charity or to fund your Xmas party – to ‘Give Peace a Chance’ and ‘Remember Love.’”

Amnesty International, British Red Cross, British-Ukrainian Aid, Doctors without Borders, International Committee of the Red Cross, Refugees International, Salvation Army, Save the Children, UNICEF and WhyHunger are among the recipients of the remixed versions of the Plastic Ono Band’s 1969 recordings.

Each acetates is numbered and includes Ono’s machine-generated signature. In 2021, Ono and Lennon donated 50 copies of “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” acetates to U.K. music charities and shops to mark the single’s 50th birthday.

12/5/23

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International Committee Of The Red Cross Job Vacancy: Humanitarian Affairs Adviser for ASEAN, Jakarta – Indonesia

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS JOB VACANCIES 2024 The ICRC Regional Delegation for Jakarta and Timor-Leste seeks to fill the following positions: Humanitarian Affairs Adviser for ASEAN (Resident Position, Jakarta-based) ROLE PURPOSES The Humanitarian Affairs Adviser provides support to the delegation in understanding the context and influencing the wider political, humanitarian, and…

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A Word from International Committee Of The Red Cross

Israel and the Occupied Territories: Targeting civilians leads to further spirals of violence and hatred | ICRC

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by Seth Mandel

“We cannot just be a relief organization,” Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross until 2022, said in a 2015 speech about the organization’s failures during the Holocaust. The Red Cross, Maurer said, was regretful: “It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass. It failed … by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently.”

It would be more accurate, actually, to say the Red Cross expressed regret. Because it’s clear its officials weren’t all that sorry.

Not only has the ICRC, which receives many millions of dollars in U.S. contributions, failed to advocate meaningfully for the Israeli hostages held by Hamas, and not only has the organization appeared uninterested in gaining access to them or their release, but it now faces legitimate questions about its complicity in Hamas war crimes.

Over the weekend the IDF released footage from al-Shifa hospital showing Hamas fighters bringing hostages to the medical compound on Oct. 7, the day of its bloody incursion into Israel. One hostage, an Israeli soldier, was likely killed there. Fighters dragging the hostages can be seen interacting freely with medical personnel at the hospital, in case anyone still tries to argue that hospital officials have plausible deniability. And as some have pointed out, there was no way for the hostages to get to Shifa without being taken past several other hospitals on the way, so they were not brought in for medical care.

Ridiculous excuses thus dispensed with, we can move on to what ICRC officials knew and when they knew it. The Red Cross was no stranger to Shifa. On November 6 and 7, for example, it boasted of ICRC caravans transporting supplies to Shifa and patients from Shifa. What did ICRC personnel see as they cleared out patients for transfer? More important, what did they pretend not to see? They had communication with and access to the hospital compound and its staff; to what purpose did they use this access? They were aware of the material needs of the hospital and therefore what was being used daily. ICRC doctors and surgeons around Gaza were in contact with colleagues at Shifa.

And we certainly know they are capable of outrage. ICRC Director Robert Mardini, for example, had this outburst on Nov. 11: “We @ICRC are shocked & appalled by the images & reports coming from Al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza. The unbearably desperate situation for patients & staff trapped inside must stop. Now. Hospitals, patients, staff & health care must be protected. Period.”

Mardini was talking about Israel’s supposed lack of respect for medical facilities in wartime, just to be clear. ICRC regional director Fabrizio Carboni was also quite exercised about it: “The information coming from the Al Shifa hospital is distressing. It cannot continue like this. Thousands of wounded, displaced people and medical staff are at risk. They need to be protected in line with the laws of war.”

Meanwhile, the ICRC had no qualms about portraying Israeli troops as a constant threat to medical personnel or would-be butchers, or going on Al Jazeera to remind the IDF of its obligations to the hospitals that Hamas was already misusing.

Indeed, the ICRC’s partnership with Shifa is a point of pride for the organization. In July, as Hamas was planning its Oct. 7 massacre, officials boasted of improvements to the hospital “implemented by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Gaza,” i.e. Hamas. “Hospitals stand at the heart of communities, and Al-Shifa Medical Complex Emergency Department is now beating strong and steady for Gaza,” crowed William Schomburg, a top ICRC Gaza official.

Back in that 2015 speech, Maurer faulted his organization for not balancing its private efforts with public pronunciations. But one difference between the Red Cross’s work in World War II and the current Gaza conflict is that in WWII, the ICRC’s record was mixed. Yes, it failed Jewish prisoners repeatedly. But it also facilitated communication to and from those prisoners, provided medical care to some of them, and was involved in prisoner exchanges—all actions for which it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1944. The Nobel committee acknowledges now that the ICRC knew more about Nazi atrocities than it let on at the time, suggesting that the Red Cross’s full wartime record might not be deserving of such an award.

This time, it has let down the hostages in every way imaginable. At the end of its note on the 1944 Nobel Peace Prize, the committee writes: “The Red Cross has since expressed regret for this suppression of the facts.”

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A Concerned Father (Wattpad | Ao3)

Bonus Oneshot for the Consequence of Loyalty

America had been worried for his son ever since he received the news that Kentucky had been captured. His states had been held prisoner before, but never so early in the war and never by a savage monster like Japan. 

Well…one had, but America was trying not to think about the similarities. It only made him more panicked, and that made it hard to do much about…about anything.

Thankfully, modern warfare came with new rules and regulations for prisoners of war, so theoretically, his son was supposed to be safe.

America still wanted to know for sure.

That was where International Committee of the Red Cross and her daughter, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, came in. Both women were allowed to visit POW camps and provide aid, so if anyone was to give him news about his son, it was them.

Or at least about the conditions of the camp he was in. Based on the lack of fuss from Japan about capturing an American state, it seems that Kentucky might have been able to hide his identity. 

So America contacted them and was, thankfully, able to arrange a meeting in DC about it. Thankfully, he hadn’t been officially sent to war yet. It would be much harder to do if he had.

“ICRC, IFRC, I know you are both busy, but thank you for meeting me,” America said.

“Playing nice with other countries is half of what we do,” IFRC said as her mother looked at her, raising an eyebrow. IFRC just shrugged in response.

“You can tell she’s young,” James commented.

“She was born in 1919, that’s…like twenty years ago,” Caleb commented.

“Like I said. Young.”

“We’re happy to answer any questions you have. Our people can take care of things on their own for a little while, and we would rather have countries trust us and be willing to work with us than…ban us from their nation,” ICRC said. America nodded.

“I’ll still try to make this quick. Now, this is technically supposed to be confidential information, as we aren’t sure they know who they have captured, but as of April, my son, Kentucky, has been a POW in the Philippines. I was wondering if you knew anything, at least not about him, but about the condition there that could soothe my worries,” America asked. ICRC and IFRC exchanged looks.

“That’s not a good sign,” Lydia said, worry painfully clear in her voice.

“I wish we could, America,” ICRC said, and America felt his breath catch in his throat. “But we can’t.”

“Why not? The 1929 Geneva Conventions should force them to allow you in,” America said, panic in his voice as he gripped his arm tightly, fingernails digging into the skin. He felt like the ground was shifting under his feet, memories of another war and another son gone missing leaping unbidden into his mind.

“It’s going to be okay. It’s humans, not countrypeople, and Japan would have brought it up by now if she knew about him. Breathe. You’re okay,” Lydia said, her voice gentle and calming and helping to stabilize the shaky ground beneath America.

America exhaled slowly, feeling his racing heart calm a little.

“Japan never signed them, and she has seen it fit to ban us from providing any sort of aid to POWs in Japanese-occupied land. She’s not the only one who has been giving us trouble. Germany has his Red Cross society refusing to cooperate fully with me, and since we are based in Geneva and backed by my mother, we’ve become…sensitive to her politics. She wants to be neutral, which has made my people want to do the same. My hands are tied,” ICRC said, sadness and regret in her eyes. 

It was so painfully clear that she wanted to help, wanted to do more, wanted to support the POWs in Japanese-controlled land, but she couldn’t.

“If Grand-mère wasn’t so insistent on being neutral, we could—” IFRC said before she was cut off by her mother.

“It’s not Mère’s fault. It is her right not to be involved in war,” ICRC said before turning to America and smiling apologetically. “I’m sorry. I hope your son is okay, and I will give you any information I have, but as of now, I know just as much as the rest of the world—nothing.”

America bit down a concerned sob, fingernails starting to draw blood as he fought to keep himself together.

Michigan. This was too much like when he lost Michigan, and he couldn’t see one of his states like that again. Sure, Japan couldn't put Kentucky under martial law, but there was no sign of the war ending soon, and Japan was still on the offensive, taking more land and colonies. She had God knows how much time to hurt him.

What if that was why she hadn’t said anything? Was she keeping it secret so she could take Kentucky away from the Philippines and hurt him? Philippines was a puppet, so she wouldn’t have to worry about controlling him.

America could feel his walls crumping as his mind spiraled further into worse-case scenarios—scenarios that seemed more likely than anything else.

He couldn’t see another son turned into a slave of the enemy.

“America, he’s going to be okay,” Lydia said, empty promises, empty words. America bit his tongue, drawing blood as he held back the urge to answer her.

“You’re going to worry them,” James commented, “You haven’t answered, and you’re drawing blood. I can take it if you can’t.”

Eager for a chance to stop thinking about it, to hide how broken he was from two organizations whose job was aid and healthcare, America relented, letting James take control.

James exhaled slowly, releasing his arm from America’s vice-like grip. He had his own worries about Kentucky, but he wasn’t as likely to collapse at news like that. America lost almost everything that he had based his identity and worth on after his war of independence and made his states his everything.

He loved them so much that their being hurt destroyed him. It didn’t help that Kentucky had been a border state and, therefore, was a state that America loved deeply for refusing to leave him, a strange and perhaps unhealthy love and almost adoration of his son, who had simply done the right thing.

America and his relationship with many states had been different after that war, and it made America all the more sensitive to news about his states.

“Thank you anyway,” James answered, smiling at ICRC and IFRC in an attempt to convince them that America was better than he was.

“Are you sure?” IFRC said, stepping forward, a seriousness in her eyes that had not been there before. James nodded.

“I am. I…back in 1812, I lost one of my states to Britain. He didn’t come back the same, and I had no idea what was happening to him until he came home. This brings back…uncomfortable memories, and I can’t help but fear that Kentucky will come back hurt too,” James explained, hoping the explanation would be enough to sedate their curiosity and prevent them from looking closer.

ICRC didn’t look convinced, but IFRC backed off.

“Do you think she knows something is wrong with us?” Caleb asked.

“I think she is a mother and a nurse who sees someone hurting and wants to help,” Lydia said. James could almost hear her frown.

“I’m sorry. I…this must be hard for you. I promise, I will see what I can find,” IFRC said. James smiled, ignoring ICRC's eyes on him.

“Thank you.”

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🇷🇺 TASS News Agency is reporting the meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric have met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly Meeting.

"The parties discussed issues related to Humanitarian activities in the key areas of the region, including the Ukrainian crises and the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria." The statement reads.

"They also compared their positions on the current aspects of the ICRC's work in Russia" the ministry added.