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Red Cross refused to give medicine to Gaza hostages, Netanyahu tells families
Jerusalem Post ^ | December 25, 2023

Posted on 12/25/2023 6:17:04 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

An International Committee of the Red Cross representative refused to bring a box of life-saving medicine to Israelis taken hostage in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a Monday address to the Knesset plenum.

"I met with the Red Cross; I handed them a box of medicine for some of the hostages shown here. Some of them really need it...I told a representative to take this box to Rafah; she said no. It was a difficult conversation," he told a special Knesset session attended by families of hostages, who were heard shouting "Now!" at the prime minister as he explained the return of all hostages would take time.

"We are sparing no effort, both seen and hidden, to bring all of the hostages home," Netanyahu said.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hostages; palestinianism; redcrescent; redcross; redcrossterrorism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why would Hamas allow the Red Cross to bring medical aid to the hostages when that would reveal where they were being held?

Interesting in that another recent article: Red Cross chief: Israel must work out with Hamas our lack of access to hostages

https://www.timesofisrael.com/red-cross-chief-says-israel-also-responsible-for-blocked-access-to-hostages/

So who ya gonna believe?

41 posted on 12/26/2023 4:24:00 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (This Is The Way)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I wonder what they did to piss off so many sailors.I wonder what they did to piss off so many sailors.”

Not sure about the Navy, but a co-worker of mine in the ‘70s had been in the Army during Vietnam. (Not sure exactly where he was serving.)

His mother died back in the States. The Army got him in touch with the Red Cross PTB so he could make a call to his family, which was supposed to be one of their services.

OK fine. He could call home, but the RC told him he had to fork over the money for the phone call, and the logistics to make it happen. He couldn’t; he didn’t have it.

I guess it’s not drastic, but when you’re a kid overseas, not your choice, and your mother dies, it’s big.

The Army finally helped him out, and they were OK with it. But they had assumed RC would, so hooking him up with them was the first action.

Anyhow, he despised the Red Cross.


42 posted on 12/26/2023 4:32:14 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

43 posted on 12/26/2023 4:42:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

My father in law came off the line in North Africa. There were Red Cross tables set up for coffee. They were charging for it. Being on the front line since getting off the landing craft, they had no cash.

He always hated them for that.


44 posted on 12/26/2023 4:48:20 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Myth that was unfounded


45 posted on 12/26/2023 4:50:50 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: Vermont Lt

Shameful. Yet the scam survive to this day.


46 posted on 12/26/2023 4:52:30 AM PST by MayflowerMadam ("A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once.")
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To: bert

So…the story he told me over and over is not true. His brothers in Europe and the Pacific told pretty much the same story.

Why would they lie about that?


47 posted on 12/26/2023 4:52:46 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: dljordan

Smart man. Read their history, it’s ugly. They have great PR, but are as radical as they come.


48 posted on 12/26/2023 5:06:17 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: LegendHasIt

Thank you for being truthful. Cowardice is hard to admit.

Out of all the terrible stuff I have read about the redcross, they never get purposely attacked. I’m not so sure I would want them anywhere near me or my family or team however, they have been/are stool pigeons and everything they see they report. Behind enemy lines that could be very dangerous to people wearing white hats.


49 posted on 12/26/2023 5:15:30 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

A veitnam sailor I knew said rc charged. Sa gave freely.


50 posted on 12/26/2023 6:01:15 AM PST by Chickensoup
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To: MayflowerMadam

Probably AER, Army Emergency Relief. When I was in, I never heard anyone complain about AER.


51 posted on 12/26/2023 6:21:02 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (They've begun dismantling Arlington Cemetery, next comes diggin up white solders and dumpin' 'em.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

RED CROSS IS ASSISTING INVADERS COMING THRU MEXICO TO US BORDER-——8,000 AND MORE

MAPS-—FOOD-—CLOTHING—SHOES, etc.


52 posted on 12/26/2023 7:53:35 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: jacknhoo

My mother said they were corrupt and that she had seen irrefutable evidence.
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Your mother was correct. I have read reports on their international corrupt activities. They obtain special courtesies for moving containers with their logo, facilitating smuggling.


53 posted on 12/26/2023 7:54:44 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I never knew all this about the Red Cross. Now I do.


54 posted on 12/26/2023 8:47:03 AM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How impartial and even-handed. Need I say sarc.


55 posted on 12/26/2023 8:53:13 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: All
It will get worse, with corrupted new head: Pierre Krahenbuhl who was first in Hitlerist UNRWA.
56 posted on 12/26/2023 11:12:06 AM PST by Conservat1
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To: Vermont Lt

Because the story became orthodox truth spread across the military even though it was untrue

The Red Cross did not sell doughnuts


57 posted on 12/27/2023 5:38:41 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: bert

Oh...where did I say they were selling donuts?

Its not important, but you are jumping up and down calling folks liars...and you cannot even read clearly.

You might want to give that some thought.


58 posted on 12/27/2023 5:46:45 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I called no one a liar....... they by the thousands repeated an untruth they believed

The orthodox myth involves doughnuts being sold in England


59 posted on 12/27/2023 5:49:36 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Hamasci de is required in totalhe)
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To: bert

That is a pedantic answer. Something I would expect on Reddit...but this place has devolved into a similar environment.


60 posted on 12/27/2023 5:50:55 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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