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| February 5, 2014
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ICRC stopped supplying tents for homeless Palestinians in Jordan Valley

 

 

According to a Red Cross official, Israeli military & civil officials took down tents it provided to residents after Israeli court ordered IDF to demolish illegal structures.

By Elior Levy

The International Committee of the Red Cross has stopped providing tents for Palestinian residents in the Jordan Valley whose houses were demolished by the IDF after the Israeli military destroyed them too.

ICRC Tents Destroyed by IDF in makeshift camps on public land in the Jordan Valley - Photo news screenshot

ICRC Tents Destroyed by IDF in makeshift camps on public land in the Jordan Valley – Photo: YouTube screenshot

The decision came after the IDF tore down the tents and also prevented the organization from taking tents into villages in the area, as part of a humanitarian aid supply. Continue Reading »

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| October 18, 2013
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Israel’s EMS Magen David Adom loses funding for West Bank stations

 

Magen David Adom has been facing pressure from the ICRC to defer EMS response in the West Bank to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

By HENRY ROME
 

 

Magen David Adom has lost funding to operate the majority of its stations in the West Bank, the ambulance service said on Thursday, citing an NIS 5 million shortfall in appropriations from the state.
MDA paramedics evacuating woman to hospital in Jerusalem.

MDA paramedics evacuating woman to hospital in Jerusalem. – Photo: Magen David Adom spokesman

An MDA spokesman said the impending closure of 13 West Bank ambulance stations out of the agency’s 17 stations there is unrelated to pressure by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been highly critical of MDA’s operations in the West Bank.

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| September 21, 2013
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IDF seizes EU diplomats’ supplies & French diplomat dragged out of truck

IDF reportedly drags French diplomat out of truck then seizes aid supply.

Reporter sees IDF soldiers throw sound grenades at group of EU diplomats, aid workers, & locals in West Bank.

By Reuters

Israeli soldiers seized on Friday a truck full of tents and emergency aid that European diplomats had been trying to deliver to Palestinians whose homes were demolished this week, Reuters reported.

French diplomat dragged out of truck – Photo: Reuters

Soldiers were reportedly throwing sound grenades at a group of diplomats, aid workers and locals in the West Bank, and pulling a French diplomat out of the truck before driving away with its contents. Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2013
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Israel tells Read Cross, We have Moral Right to Fight Back

Israel’s PM Netanyahu issued a clear message Monday to the ICRC head, saying Israel will attack any nation that threatens the security of its citizens.

By Chana Ya’ar

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a blunt warning Monday to the International Committee of the Red Cross, saying Israel has a “legal and moral right” to attack any nation that fires at its civilians.

Speaking with ICRC President Peter Mauer at a meeting in Jerusalem, the prime minister pointed out that Arab terrorists both to Israel’s north and south use civilians as human shields, a crime against humanity.

“Hizbullah terrorists are perpetrating war crimes in Syria and slaughtering innocent Syrian civilians even as it continues to stockpile tens of thousands of rockets, concentrated in residential buildings and aimed at Israeli civilians,” he said. Continue Reading »

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| May 25, 2013
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Hamas accuses Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients with gas

Hamas health minister reports to ICRC & WHO that Israel provided carbon monoxide instead of nitrous gas used for anesthesia that almost killed 4 hospital patients.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Hamas Health Minister Mofeed al-Mokhalalati accused Israel of poisoning Palestinians patients in Gaza by providing the hospitals in the Strip carbon monoxide gas posing as nitrous gas, the Middle East Monitor reported on Friday.

Doctors in Gaza, Nasser Hospital - Photo Suhaib Salem, Reuters

Doctors in Gaza, Nasser Hospital – Photo: Suhaib Salem, Reuters

Four Palestinian patients were reportedly poisoned by the carbon monoxide gas and suffered cardiac arrest, in what Mokjalalati described as an “unprecedented case which almost killed several patients at the hospital’s main operation room,” according to Palestinian news agency Ma’an.

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| May 15, 2013
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UN Agency & Red Cross caught Delegitimizing Israel

A U.N. director comes under fire for photo op holding map that erased Israel.

The ICRC planted 150 trees that were named after convicted terrorists & murders.

 

A senior United Nations official was recently caught posing for a picture in Lebanon while holding “a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as ‘Palestine,’” according to an Israeli media monitoring organization.

U.N. official holds map erasing Israel / palwatch.org

U.N. official holds map erasing Israel / palwatch.org screenshot

Ann Dismorr, director of the United National Relief Works Agency’s (UNRWA) Lebanon bureau, posed on May 3 on Arabic television holding a map that clearly erases the Jewish state of Israel and replaces it with “Palestine,” according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which posted several photos of Dismorr.

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| May 8, 2012
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ICRC, UN appeal for Palestinian hunger strikers

Int’l Red Cross urges Israel to transfer 6 prisoners to hospital, to allow family visits; UN also expresses concern.

 

GENEVA – The International Committee of the Red Cross called on Israel on Tuesday to transfer six Palestinians who have been on hunger strike for weeks to hospital and allow visits from their families.

PALESTINIANS RALLY in Ramallah for Prisoners Day - Photo: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

PALESTINIANS RALLY in Ramallah for Prisoners Day - Photo: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

All six are in prison under Israel’s long-standing policy of detaining people it suspects of security offenses or plotting attacks in a closed military proceeding between security forces and military judges rather than after a formal trial.

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