the Red Crescent
noun
: an organization in Islamic countries that helps people who are suffering because of a war or natural disaster
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The health ministry said the hospital was temporarily out of service and that patients have since been transferred to three other hospitals in Gaza City, including Shifa, Al-Quds and the Red Crescent Field Hospital.
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Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Smoke rises from an area near the Red Crescent building in Tehran after an Israeli airstrike Wednesday.
—Sara Monetta, NBC news, 19 June 2025
Injuries Red Crescent and U.N. officials have said 17 paramedics and emergency workers from the Red Crescent, the Civil Emergency service and the U.N. had been dispatched to respond to reports of injuries from Israeli air strikes.
—James MacKenzie and Alexander Cornwell, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Their bodies were laid out on stretchers wrapped in white cloth with the Red Crescent logo on it and their photos, as family and others held funeral prayers over them.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Smoke rises from an area near the Red Crescent building in Tehran after an Israeli airstrike Wednesday.
—Sara Monetta, NBC news, 19 June 2025
Injuries Red Crescent and U.N. officials have said 17 paramedics and emergency workers from the Red Crescent, the Civil Emergency service and the U.N. had been dispatched to respond to reports of injuries from Israeli air strikes.
—James MacKenzie and Alexander Cornwell, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
Their bodies were laid out on stretchers wrapped in white cloth with the Red Crescent logo on it and their photos, as family and others held funeral prayers over them.
—Arkansas Online, 1 Apr. 2025
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“The Red Crescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Red%20Crescent. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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