GAZA (PIC)– Head of the international campaign for releasing the abducted lawmakers MP Mushir Al-Masri urged the Red Cross to work on bringing back the Jerusalemite lawmakers and the former minister to its headquarters in occupied Jerusalem.
MP Masri told Eloi Fillion the deputy director of the Red Cross over the phone on Tuesday that Israel violated the parliamentary immunity of Palestinian lawmakers and the international representation of the Red Cross.
He said that the Red Cross should coordinate with international institutions to pressure Israel to stop its violations against the Palestinian lawmakers.
For his part Fillion said the Red Cross was shocked about the storming of its headquarters in Jerusalem and the arrest of MP Mohamed Totah and former minister Khaled Abu Arafa.
He affirmed that the Israeli intention to exile them from Jerusalem as happened to their colleagues earlier is against international law and promised that the Red Cross would do its best to bring them back to its headquarters in the holy city.
In a related context the Israeli police said its raid on the Red Cross to detain Totah and Abu Arafa was according to law especially since the Red Cross does not have any diplomatic status or immunity inside Israel.
The police added they transferred the detained officials to its minorities department in Jerusalem until all procedures for their expulsion from the holy city is completed.
