MKS opposes the visits of the Red Cross to Palestinian prisoners, citing security concerns and the lack of work on the hostages kept by Hamas. It calls for continuing reciprocity.
MKS pushed to prevent the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Israeli prisons during the meeting of the National Security Committee Knesateet on Tuesday, representatives of the service of prisoners in Israel (IPS) said that instead of these visits could harm the security of the state.
Since the October 7 massacre in 2023, the Israel-Husass war has come out,Visits of the Red Cross for Palestinian prisoners I stopped, along with the transfer of information.
Supreme Court ruling In August 2024, the state called for an explanation of its refusal to allow the Red Cross to see Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.
MKS said at the committee meeting that, given that the Red Cross was not doing enough to provide assistance or a visit The hostages held in the families of HamasThe visits to Palestinian prisoners cannot be exchanged.
“There is no effort” that the Red Cross was made on behalf of the hostages.
A Palestinian terrorist, Hamas, speaks with Stephanie Ealler before the release of the hostages who had been held in Gaza since the deadly 7th October attack, 2023, as part of the ceasefire and the hostage of the hostages between Prison between Hamas and Israel in Khan Unit, in the Southern Gaza Strip, February 15, 2025.
“The reciprocity must be preserved and the conditions are maintained.
The MK Limor Son Har-MELECH (OTZMA YEHUDIT) is called the Red Cross.
She said that the Red Cross “acted in a biased manner towards our hostages” by equal Palestinian prisoners instead of “the terrorists who raped, killed, and committed horrific crimes.”
MK Aida Touma-Sleiman (Hadash-Tal) spoke in favor of allowing the Red Cross to visits to Palestinian prisoners, saying that “many things occur inside prisons. The Supreme Court rules the conditions of prisoners, not a coincidence.”
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that IPS failed to provide adequate food and nourish security prisoners. National Security Minister Itamar bin Ghafir (Uzma Judait) has publicly made data about reducing the conditions of prisoners, although maintaining that the “basic basic conditions required under the law” are provided.
Toma Suleiman added that the lack of visits of the Red Cross to the hostages comes because the organization was unable to “persuade Hamas to allow visits.”
To blame them [Red Cross] Because this is far and ridiculous. Both sides tell them: You will not visit until the other side allows this. “
A representative from the IPS anti -frame department talked about possible security issues with visits, saying: “We have information that the visits of the Red Cross may harm prison security and possibly state security.”
The IPS legal advisor told the committee that “since the beginning of the war, the IPS position was that the Red Cross should not enter prisons, based on a professional assessment of the intelligence department that these visits may harm prison security and the prison staff at risk.”
MK Ariel Kallner (Likud) also talked about the potential security threats of allowing the Red Cross to visit Israeli prisons.
He said: “There were cases in which the Red Cross was damaged by state security and used its access to the transfer of information.”
Fake request
Kallner added: “Allowing the visits of these killers in our prisons is an unjustified, unjustified and unacceptable request.”
Family family members spoke at the meeting of the committee as well.
The committee told Hanna Cohen, the aunt of a dead person hostage to Anbar Hayman, whose body is still enthusiastic, that “our daughter was kidnapped by those sitting in prison and now asking for visits of the Red Cross.”
“In an ordinary country, they should have been executed,” she added.
She said, “I do not know the location of our daughter. The law requires the Red Cross to verify her location. My family is tortured.”
At the end of the discussion, Vogel told those in the committee, “We must act as a country with the spine. The Council of Ministers must decide: There are no visits to the Red Cross until information is received about our hostages.”