Wait, Were We Supposed To Take Care Of The Hostages?

By the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

Khan Yunis, November 18 – Whoa, whoa, slow down. Repeat that. That part about Israelis held captive in Gaza… you’re saying… you’re saying it was within our mandate – our raison d’être, in fact – to ascertain the welfare and treatment of those captives, and not merely to serve as a corpse delivery service? You… you could be right. We need to look this up.

Someone pointed out an apparent inconsistency in the practices we uphold in other conflict or disaster ones versus our policies in the Gaza Strip: apparently, in other conflict zones, the Red Cross uses its international standing and moral high ground to demand access to prisoners of war and other captives, and assures that those prisoners receive adequate nutrition, hygiene, and medical care – with the Red Cross itself sometime stepping in to provide the medications or supplies, if necessary; but in Gaza, where Hamas was holding hundreds of Israelis captive, we simply… didn’t. Yes, that’s true. And?

Listen, we can’t do our job as an international humanitarian organization if we can’t work with the powers that be in the area where we operate. Good relations with the host government or administration is always key to our ability to fulfill our mandate. If that means not taking care of the people our organizational charter declares is the very purpose for which our organization exists. we don’t know what to tell you. You’re going to get upset about a bunch of Jews?

Everyone knows Jews don’t count. That’s why we were perfectly content not to insist on access to the various concentration and death camps under Nazi Germany control. It’s why we were willing to be duped by the dog and pony show they put on for us at the Theresienstadt camp. A few hundred Jews – many of them not even alive for long, or taken to Gaza as corpses – are bupkis compared to our previous oversights.

Humanitarian work in particular has little time for Jews. Have you any idea how excruciating it was, on and after October 7, to have to feign sympathy? Our personnel’s primary attitude at that time, and ever since, could be summed up as, “I wish those Jews would stop whining so we can get back to helping the people trying to kill them.”

This whole thing should be finished soon, when we ferry the last of the remaining hostage bodies into Israeli-controlled territory. Good riddance.

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