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 most explosive film at this year’s festival belongs to Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, who portrays the Israeli army’s 2024 killing of a six-year-old Palestinian girl by recreating the Red Crescent emergency call center where her wrenching calls for help were received.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
The propaganda video shows captive Guy Gilboa-Dalal in a car in several locations in Gaza City, including outside the Red Crescent headquarters.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Actors speak and react to Rajab’s own desperate voice, while the film, set wholly within the Red Crescent’s beigely neutral offices, conjures a fraught ticking-clock atmosphere as precious minutes of inaction pass by.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
The head of their office, Mahdi (Amer Hlehel), must figure out a safe route for medic Youssef Zaïno and driver Ahmed Madhoun, the Red Crescent’s only remaining ambulance team in Gaza’s northern region.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
The propaganda video shows captive Guy Gilboa-Dalal in a car in several locations in Gaza City, including outside the Red Crescent headquarters.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Actors speak and react to Rajab’s own desperate voice, while the film, set wholly within the Red Crescent’s beigely neutral offices, conjures a fraught ticking-clock atmosphere as precious minutes of inaction pass by.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
The head of their office, Mahdi (Amer Hlehel), must figure out a safe route for medic Youssef Zaïno and driver Ahmed Madhoun, the Red Crescent’s only remaining ambulance team in Gaza’s northern region.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
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“The Red Crescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Red%20Crescent. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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