The International Committee of the Red Cross's director-general Pierre Krahenbuhl.
ICRC says “pattern of violence” targeting aid workers in Gaza, Sudan
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The International Committee of the Red Cross's director-general told AFP on Friday that humanitarian workers were being increasingly targeted in Gaza and in Sudan, where five Red Crescent volunteers were killed this week.
"It is now becoming a pattern of violence against humanitarian workers in Sudan, in Gaza, and others, that we find very dramatic," Pierre Krahenbuhl told AFP in the Bahraini capital Manama.
There have also been reports that 460 people were killed at the last partially functional hospital in El-Fasher -- which recently fell to Sudanese armed groups, sparking fears of a return to the ethnically motivated atrocities of 20 years ago.
Krahenbuhl also told AFP that ‘Israeli’ allegations that ICRC visits to Palestinian detainees posed a security threat were untrue.
On Wednesday, ‘Israeli’ Defence Minister Israel Katz issued an order banning the ICRC from visiting Palestinians jailed under a law that allows their indefinite detention.
Katz had said the visits, which had been halted since the Gaza assault began, would "seriously harm the state's security".
But Krahenbuhl said there was "no way in which our visits can pose a security threat or a national security threat" to ‘Israel’.
