Red Cross blasts Israel

The NYT ^ | 1/08/09 | Alan crowell

[ChurtleDawg]

PARIS — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday it had discovered “shocking” scenes — including small children next to their mothers’ corpses — when its representatives gained access for the first time to parts of Gaza battered by Israeli shelling. It accused Israel of failing to meet obligations to care for the wounded in areas of combat.

In response, the Israeli military did not comment directly on the allegation. In a statement, it accused Hamas, its foe in Gaza, of deliberately using “Palestinian civilians as human shields” and said the Israeli Army “works in close cooperation with international aid organizations during the fighting so that civilians can be provided with assistance.”

The Israeli military “in no way intentionally targets civilians and has demonstrated its willingness to abort operations to save civilian lives and to risk injury in order to assist innocent civilians,” the statement said, promising that “any serious allegation” would “need to be investigated properly, once such a complaint is received formally, within the constraints of the current military operation.”

In an unusually blunt criticism, the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross said it had been seeking access to shell-damaged areas in Zeitoun in the east of Gaza City since Saturday but the Israeli authorities granted permission only on Wednesday — the first day that Israel allowed a three-hour lull in the attacks on Gaza on humanitarian grounds.

[G Larry]

Perhaps the Red Cross could ask Hamas to stop using ambulances as troop transports and schools as launching pads?

[Bitsy]

So, now the Red Cross is turning against Israel

I hope they have a lot of donors in other countries because most Americans are pro-Israel. My donation, meager as it is, will not be going to the Red Cross anytime soon unless they start whistling a different tune.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Thanks for your post. I was considering a donation to them. Now I’m reconsidering.

[GauchoUSA]

“most Americans are pro-Israel”???

No, I don’t think so, the MSM is wildly anti Israel, I think you mean all sensible Americans, who are conservative.

[Bitsy]

I think you mean all sensible Americans, who are conservative.
Yep. I meant sensible conservative Americans.

[Dallas59]

Are they sure those people weren’t executed by Hamas as spies and to make things look worse?

[Jocko from Canada]

The Red Cross are finally investigating?

Sure beats their performance witnessed the Nazi death camps of World War 2!

[count-your-change]

Red Cross? How many people have they killed with AIDS tainted blood? Maybe the Israelis could lend them some soap to wash the blood off their hands.

[Munz]

DISGUSTING!
I am so sick of this one way crap.
See if I support the red cross anymore.

[rmlew]

Would this be the same International Red Cross/Red Crescent that refuses to recognize the Maged David Adom (Red Star of David)?
When they stop letting Hizbullah use the ambulances in Lebanon, I'll think of them as something other than a combatant siding with the Islamists.

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[knighthawk]

Is this the same Red Cross Int. that allowed a red cresent moon (so muslims would not be offended bij a cross) but disallowed the Star of David on Israeli’s ambulances?