Medical staff protest for hostage intervention outside Red Cross
search
home page

The latest Jewish News

Read this week’s digital edition

Click Here
More issues

BLOG – Israel at war; Hamas hostages: Day 56

Israel-Hamas ceasefire extended for 24 hours; at least 8 hostages expected to be released on Thursday

November 8, 2023, 10:04 am Edit
Hostages released since the truce: Eitan Yahalomi with his mother and Emily Hand with her father
Hostages released since the truce: Eitan Yahalomi with his mother and Emily Hand with her father
Support your Jewish community. Support your Jewish News

Thank you for helping to make Jewish News the leading source of news and opinion for the UK Jewish community. Today we're asking for your invaluable help to continue putting our community first in everything we do.

For as little as £5 a month you can help sustain the vital work we do in celebrating and standing up for Jewish life in Britain.

Read more

Jewish News holds our community together and keeps us connected. Like a synagogue, it’s where people turn to feel part of something bigger. It also proudly shows the rest of Britain the vibrancy and rich culture of modern Jewish life.

You can make a quick and easy one-off or monthly contribution of £5, £10, £20 or any other sum you’re comfortable with.

100% of your donation will help us continue celebrating our community, in all its dynamic diversity...

Engaging

Being a community platform means so much more than producing a newspaper and website. One of our proudest roles is media partnering with our invaluable charities to amplify the outstanding work they do to help us all.

Celebrating

There’s no shortage of oys in the world but Jewish News takes every opportunity to celebrate the joys too, through projects like Night of Heroes, 40 Under 40 and other compelling countdowns that make the community kvell with pride.

Pioneering

In the first collaboration between media outlets from different faiths, Jewish News worked with British Muslim TV and Church Times to produce a list of young activists leading the way on interfaith understanding.

Campaigning

Royal Mail issued a stamp honouring Holocaust hero Sir Nicholas Winton after a Jewish News campaign attracted more than 100,000 backers. Jewish Newsalso produces special editions of the paper highlighting pressing issues including mental health and Holocaust remembrance.

Easy access

In an age when news is readily accessible, Jewish News provides high-quality content free online and offline, removing any financial barriers to connecting people.

Voice of our community to wider society

The Jewish News team regularly appears on TV, radio and on the pages of the national press to comment on stories about the Jewish community. Easy access to the paper on the streets of London also means Jewish News provides an invaluable window into the community for the country at large.

We hope you agree all this is worth preserving.

read more:
10:04 am

Medical staff protest for hostage intervention outside Red Cross

By Michelle Rosenberg

A demonstration by medical staff and health professionals in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in London is calling for an immediate intervention in the case of the hostages kidnapped from Israel on 7th October.

The group of medical, nursing, mental health and allied healthcare professionals in the UK said they “appeal to the Red Cross for their immediate intervention in the hostage crisis of 241 hostages kidnapped from Israel on Saturday 7 October 2023, the same day when over 1400 were brutally massacred by the terrorist organisation, Hamas.

“We call for the immediate release of the hostages who were abducted by force from Israel to Gaza and now held by Hamas, a proscribed terror organisation. The hostages include babies, children, disabled, elderly, women, and men, some of whom have urgent medical needs. We have grave concerns about the physical and mental wellbeing of the hostages and demand that the Red Cross visit the hostages to assess their medical condition and needs.

“We act as part of a global initiative in collaboration with the hostages and missing families’ forum. On Thursday (9 November) doctors and allied healthcare professionals from medical institutions in the UK, together with the forum for the families of the hostages will demonstrate in front of the offices of the ICRC in London.

“The demonstration will begin at 16:30 and speeches will be made by the demonstrating health care professionals, including Mr. Elliot Sorene, whose son, a British citizen, survived the Re’im Nova Music Festival massacre on 7 October 2023.

Sorene, a consultant trauma, orthopaedic and hand surgeon in London said: “As medical and healthcare professionals, we will not rest, nor will we be silent until the ICRC fulfils its professional and moral duty to visit the hostages in the Gaza strip and to allow them to receive essential and lifesaving medical treatment.  Infants, children, men, women, elderly and disabled, are being held in captivity by Hamas for over a month and have received no humanitarian visits from the ICRC. The argument that the ICRC is ‘doing everything in its ability’ is a denial of the substance of the organisation and its role, and raises serious questions about its unbiased,neutral and apolitical responsibilities, as it purports to be.”

The demonstration will take place on Thursday, 9 November, 16:30 Near the ICRC (Red Cross) Offices in London 44 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9AL