News release

ICRC President arrives in the West Bank

Geneva (ICRC) - Mirjana Spoljaric, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), arrived in the West Bank on Friday amid fears of a deepening escalation resulting in rising humanitarian needs. The West Bank is witnessing its most violent cycle in decades.

President Spoljaric will meet the leadership of the Palestine Red Crescent Society to discuss efforts to assist communities suffering from the effects of conflict.

She will meet with health authorities as well as representatives of Palestinian detainees, to listen and share with them the ICRC’s persistent efforts to regain access to monitor their treatment in detention.

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent organization with an exclusively humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the world affected by armed conflict and other violence, doing everything it can to protect their lives and dignity and to relieve their suffering, often alongside its Red Cross and Red Crescent partners.

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The ICRC has been present in Israel and the occupied territories (including the Golan, West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Shebaa Farms) since 1967. As a neutral, impartial and independent humanitarian organization, we promote compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL) and work to mitigate the impact of armed conflict, other violence and occupation on civilians through our protection activities and assistance programs.