How to Use the Red Crescent in a Sentence
the Red Crescent
noun
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The level of risk harks back to two decades ago to the wave of violence known as the second intifada, when 12 medics were killed, according to the Red Crescent.
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Sufian Taha,
Washington Post,
19 July 2023
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The death toll spiked from 500 reported earlier on Sunday by the Red Crescent.
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Reuters,
NBC News,
9 Oct. 2023
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Early in the war, the regime realized that the scale of this effort would overwhelm the Red Crescent’s capabilities.
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Annie Sparrow,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Sep. 2018
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Videos shared by the Red Crescent and verified by the video-analysis group Storyful showed a large cloud of smoke from an apparent strike near the same hospital.
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Loveday Morris,
Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2023
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After these changes, the Red Crescent’s new unofficial policy was to deliver aid according to partisan criteria.
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Annie Sparrow,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Sep. 2018
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