Notorious Red Cross Picks Antisemitic Former UNRWA Commissioner as Director-General as Evidence Mounts that Red Cross Enables Palestinian ‘Pay for Slay’

As evidence mounts that the Red Cross facilitated pay for slay, the infamous organization named the former head of the notoriously antisemitic UNRWA agencies. The Red Cross says it has appointed Pierre Krahenbuhl, a infamous former head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, as its director-general.

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Since October 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive  terror stipends from the Palestinian Authority, a watchdog organization accuses.

According to Palestinian Media Watch, incarcerated Palestinians fill out forms to receive the “pay for slay” stipends and the Red Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.

“The role of the International Red Cross in this process is central,” PMW director Itamar Marcus explained to the Tazpit Press Service. “The international health organization is involved in this because as they visit prisoners, they’re able to bring in forms. Israeli security is not looking at the forms or preventing the terrorist prisoner access to the forms they need to sign.”

Red Cross taps controversial former UNRWA commissioner as director-general

By AFP and ToI Staff Today, December 22, 2023:

The Red Cross says it has appointed Pierre Krahenbuhl, a controversial former head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, as its director-general.

The Swiss national, with more than 30 years of experience in the humanitarian sector, will take over in April, when current chief Robert Mardini completes his four-year term.

“The Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has appointed Pierre Krahenbuhl as the organization’s next director-general,” it says in a statement.

Krahenbuhl, 57, has spent 25 years in prominent roles at the ICRC and is currently serving as secretary-general to the ICRC assembly.

In 2014, Krahenbuhl was appointed commissioner-general of the United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). He resigned from that position in 2019 amid an internal probe into alleged mismanagement and ethical abuses at the organization.

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Israel accuses the agency of perpetuating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants of Palestinians who fled or were forced out of homes in today’s Israel at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, rather than limiting refugee status only to the original refugees, as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide.

Israel and other groups have also long argued that UNRWA school materials glorify terrorism and anti-Israel incitement.

The Foreign Ministry previously charged that under Krahenbuhl, UNWRA became more politicized.

Terrorists imprisoned before October 7 are also sending renewal forms via the Red Cross to Ramallah.

By Sveta Listratov, TPS, December 22, 2023:

Since October 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial terror stipends from the Palestinian Authority, a watchdog organization accuses.

According to Palestinian Media Watch, incarcerated Palestinians fill out forms to receive the “pay for slay” stipends and the Red Cross delivers the paperwork to Ramallah.

“The role of the International Red Cross in this process is central,” PMW director Itamar Marcus explained to the Tazpit Press Service. “The international health organization is involved in this because as they visit prisoners, they’re able to bring in forms. Israeli security is not looking at the forms or preventing the terrorist prisoner access to the forms they need to sign.”

The prisoners’ paperwork needs to be completed by the end of 2023 in order to receive stipends in 2024. Terrorists imprisoned before October 7 are also sending renewal forms via the Red Cross to Ramallah.

A copy of Fatah directives dated December 4 and translated by PMW instructed Palestinians to “please produce a [International Red] Cross document for those who have no sentence whose names appear below; a [International Red] Cross document accompanied by a new administrative [detention] order for the administrative detainees; and a [International Red] Cross document accompanied by a verdict for the sentenced prisoners.”

Lists of prisoners from Bethlehem and Hebron districts were circulated on social media to encourage prisoners and their families to claim the payouts. Other Palestinian organizations, such as the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs joined the publicity campaign.

Since October 7, around 2,400 Palestinian terror suspects have been arrested throughout Judea and Samaria, of whom about half are associated with Hamas.

Israelis say the payouts are nothing more than economic incentives for murder and refer to the stipends as “pay for slay.”

The International Red Cross did not respond to queries from the Tazpit Press Service. Israelis, particularly the families of the hostages, have criticized the Red Cross for not doing more to get access to their loved ones, deliver medicine, and check on their well-being.

The Israeli Prison Service is overseen by Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir. His spokesman, Issachar Zalmanovitz, told TPS, “According to Minister Ben Gvir’s policy, there is no salary distribution, no deposits in the prison, and no visits to security prisoners. The Minister has canceled the distribution of 400 shekels to each security prisoner.”

Asked about the Red Cross’s involvement in facilitating the payouts, Zalmanovitz responded, “The Red Cross is a very problematic organization.”

PMW’s Marcus told TPS, “If Israel were to condition the Red Cross access to the Palestinian prisoners with Hamas granting access to these Israeli hostages, the impact could be monumental.”

He added, “Any hostages who would be visited by the Red Cross and their condition documented, would make it very difficult for Hamas to subsequently injure or murder them.”