How to Use the Red Crescent in a Sentence

the Red Crescent

noun
  • Her cousin rang the Red Crescent, but was killed by gunfire while on the call.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The dead were taken to a field hospital run by the Red Crescent.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2026
  • The four dead were taken to a field hospital run by the Red Crescent, the charity said.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • For the Red Crescent workers who lived that day, the movie provided some measure of catharsis.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • An early note from Cheikhrouha asked why the Red Crescent couldn’t just send an ambulance out to save Hind.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The spokesperson for the Red Crescent said the strikes have hit 24 of Iran's 31 provinces.
    — CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • There are now around 1,100 gates, the Red Crescent said, compared with about 800 at the time of last year’s war.
    — Imad Isseid, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The death toll in Iran now more than 1,200 according to the Red Crescent Society.
    — ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Additionally, a 12-year-old was shot in the shoulder, according to the Red Crescent.
    — Aref Tuffaha, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • What should have been a short drive was stymied by the Red Crescent having to coordinate its route with Israeli authorities to clear the route with military units.
    — Alexander Durie, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • In one scene, someone holds up a phone showing the real footage of the Red Crescent workers that day, further blurring the lines between documentary and performance.
    — Alexander Durie, Time, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Members of the Red Crescent gather near a truck loaded with humanitarian aid, which appears to cross the border at Rafah this morning.
    — Nbc News, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Within minutes, general security forces and the Red Crescent arrived.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Dec. 2025
  • The Libyan coast guard and the Red Crescent in the eastern city of Tobruk reported retrieving bodies that started to wash ashore over the past 24 hours.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • The film uses voice recordings between Hind Rajab and the Red Crescent volunteers who got the emergency call and try to keep her on the line to get an ambulance to her.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Alireza Dadkhodai, an emergency operations expert with the Red Crescent, recalled the moment the missiles hit.
    — Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • The gut-wrenching film uses voice recordings between Hind Rajab and the Red Crescent volunteers who got the emergency call and tried to keep her on the line to get an ambulance to her.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, on Saturday evening said at least 201 people had been killed and more than 700 injured.
    — Dallas Morning News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, on Saturday evening said at least 201 people had been killed and more than 700 injured.
    — Brian Melley, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Iranian state media, citing the Red Crescent, said on Saturday evening that at least 201 people had been killed and more than 700 injured.
    — Brian Melley, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Representatives of the Red Crescent Society and the real-life staff members whose struggle to save Rajab is retold in the film were also in the audience.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2025
  • It’s set in the Red Crescent offices in the West Bank, as aid workers debate whether to prioritize a speedy rescue or the safety of the first responders, whose deaths would mean fewer rescues in the future.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026
  • The first shipment of five trucks was handed over to the IRCS in Tehran for further distribution, with a remaining nine trucks to reach the Red Crescent later this week.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Hind’s story, and her recorded voice on the Red Crescent emergency call, were the basis for Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Rajab’s shattering half of her dialogue with the Red Crescent workers is presented in the film nearly in full, but integrated into a heated dramatization of the call-center conflict surrounding her case.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Italy's embassy in Colombo was providing assistance to those onboard and had contacted the Red Crescent, which offered to deploy volunteers to help provide psychological aid.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Italy’s embassy in Colombo was providing assistance to those onboard and had contacted the Red Crescent, which offered to deploy volunteers to help provide psychological aid.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • 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
  • In late November, the entire cast and crew met Wesam Hamada and the Red Crescent workers in person for the first time at the opening night of the Doha Film Festival.
    — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 11 Dec. 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

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