The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has appealed to the Red Cross and the UN Monitoring Mission after a video emerged of Russians apparently killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers.
Eight released Israeli hostages wrote a letter to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Monday, asking the humanitarian organization to provide medical assistance and to visit their relatives still being held by Hamas in Gaza. In an Oct. 7 cross-border attack, Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and seized 240 hostages, according to Israeli tallies. Hamas freed over 100 of the captives during a seven-day truce last month in return for the release by Israel of scores of Palestinian detainees, as well as an increase in humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza.
The resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip has been intense, the director general of the Red Cross said on Saturday, as Israel air strikes and artillery bombarded the enclave a day after a week-long pause in hostilities there with Hamas collapsed. Israel's military has said it struck 400 militant targets and killed an unspecified number of Hamas fighters in the past 24 hours. "We don't have precise reports but what I can say is the resumption of fighting was intense again," ICRC Director General Robert Mardini told Reuters at the COP28 U.N. summit in Dubai.