The next few days will be absolutely decisive if the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), like other humanitarian organisations, is to continue providing aid in the Gaza Strip, said its director-general Pierre Krähenbühl. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The ICRC said it is currently conducting an intense dialogue with Israel. "One of the difficulties at the moment is the possibility of the wounded reaching the ICRC's field hospital," the director-general told journalists in Geneva on Thursday. And "there will come a time when we will have drawn on what is left of the medicines and other aid". This situation is "unacceptable" and violates international humanitarian law (IHL), Krähenbühl added. Israel has said it wants to distribute the aid itself in the Palestinian territory. + Swiss foreign ministry alarmed by Gaza developments Krähenbühl stressed the country's right to do so, but also recalled the importance of following ...
