The Red Cross AWOL On Israel
AWOL means, ‘Absent Without Official Leave’.
What Are the Duties of the Red Cross?
The Red Cross mission aims to prevent and relieve suffering with every action; to shelter, feed and provide comfort to people affected by disasters; supply about 40% of the nation’s blood; teach skills that save lives; distribute international humanitarian aid; and support veterans, military members and their families.
The American Red Cross is not a government agency; it is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that depends on volunteers and the generosity of the American public to deliver its mission.
Among the many American Red Cross duties are:
Disaster relief: Providing food, shelter, and comfort to people affected by disasters;
Blood services: Donating blood and helping staff blood drives;
Training: Teaching life-saving skills like CPR and First Aid;
Emergency preparedness: Helping people prepare for emergencies;
Support to veterans: Helping veterans receive hospital care, vocational training and compensation;
Red Cross Absent on Israel
What did the Red Cross do for the Israeli hostages who languished for months – and some are still – in Hamas’s dark terror tunnels?
The shameful inaction of both the United Nations Organization (UN) and the International Red Cross will go down as a historic infamy and a ruse.
The public owes to bring up the following question: Why are Israel and the Jewish people treated by the Red Cross so differently than the rest of humanity?
There is a clear and official task guideline which the Red Cross must perform and act upon during international Prisoner Of War (POW) and hostage-taking cases.
Now we need to explain what the Red Cross actually did, or did not do for the Israeli civilians and other nationalities who were forcibly kidnapped from their home and their sovereign territory and were held and are being held hostage by Hamas terrorists in the terror enclave Gaza.
So again, the Red Cross plays a crucial role in the treatment of international hostages and Prisoner Of War (POWs) cases. In such cases the organization’s primary tasks include:
- Monitoring Conditions: The Red Cross assesses and monitors the conditions under which POWs and hostages are held, ensuring they are treated humanely and in accordance with international humanitarian law. No Red Cross representative showed up to monitor the Israeli hostages’ conditions.
- Facilitating Communication: They help maintain communication between POWs and their families, as well as between the detained individuals and the authorities. No such communication was facilitated by the Red Cross, not even 480 days after the kidnapping occurred.
- Advocacy: The organization advocates for the rights of POWs and hostages, urging parties in conflict to comply with international laws such as the Geneva Conventions. Hamas is a terror organization that does not follow any international laws such as the Geneva Conventions. We did not hear any advocacy for the rights of the hostages coming from the Red Cross channels.
- Providing Assistance: The Red Cross offers medical care and supplies to POWs and hostages, ensuring they receive necessary medical attention. The Red Cross did not provide or deliver any medical attention to the Israeli hostages. In fact when Israel arranged the delivery of the first and last medication, known as prescribed to some of the hostages, IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers found them thrown away in some terror tunnel. They were never delivered to the hostages-patients.
- Repatriation Support: They assist in the process of repatriating POWs and might help negotiate their release. The Red Cross did not help negotiate their release, nor participate in the ceasefire negotiations. They also did not assist in the process of repatriating the Israeli hostages.
Overall, the Red Cross aims to ensure that the rights and dignity of individuals in such situations are respected and upheld. Here the Red Cross was totally missing in action.
So, what did the Red Cross actually do since October 7, 2023?
In one word: nothing.
Unless, of course, you count in the Red Cross favor that they stand with terrorists, get ready to receive the hostages from the hands of their Hamas captors, then drive the freed Israeli hostages from Gaza to the IDF meeting point.
In late 2023, Israel’s then-foreign minister Eli Cohen said the Red Cross had “no right to exist” if it did not visit the hostages in Gaza.
Facing much flak, Red Cross had to come to its own defense in its role in Israel-Hamas war. They came up with the false statement, “From day one, we have called for the immediate release of all the hostages, and for access to them” If that is the case Hamas simply laughed at them for their inadequacy and paralysis of actions.
Let us be clear here: neutrality maybe part of the Red Cross’s mission, but it always sides against Israel.
Shameful Red Cross, crossing all red lines of its official duties.
