RAMALLAH (PIC)– Dozens of Palestinian young activists closed on Thursday morning the entrance of the Red Cross headquarters in Ramallah city to protest its passive role in exposing Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian prisoners and hunger strikers.
A group of young men gathered at seven o’clock in the morning outside the main gates of the Red Cross building carrying condemnation banners against the agency according to the Palestinian information center (PIC) reporter in the city.
Earlier on Wednesday Palestinian youth groups in Ramallah city called for closing all the Red Cross offices in the West Bank in protest at its silence on Israel’s violations against the Palestinian prisoners and hunger strikers.
This came in a joint press release issued by the independent youth movement young men love the country and sons and daughters of the Palestinian people.
The youth groups affirmed that the gates of the Red Cross offices would be closed on Thursday in all West Bank cities for two hours in the morning.
They stated that this step is part of the week of solidarity with prisoners and hunger strikers and aimed at sending a clear condemnation message to the Red Cross against its persistence in operating in accordance with Israel’s regulations and orders.
The groups added that the Red Cross works as a false witness to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people and their prisoners.
In a separate incident Palestinian prisoner Mutassim Raddad appealed to human rights groups to swiftly save the ill detainees in the Ramla prison infirmary.
The prisoner made his appeal during a visit by a lawyer sent by the ministry of prisoners’ affairs.
Raddad briefed the lawyer on the serious medical situation which the patients in Israeli jails are undergoing.
“We the sick prisoners die everyday hearing nothing but the cries and groans of each other. Our medical files have been closed and doctors have told us that we will stay like this for the rest of our lives living in jails and not a hospital unable to move or be visited” the prisoner said.
