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Red Cross denies Palestinian prisoner visits are security threat to Israel
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Illustrative: Palestinian security prisoners gesture from inside a bus after being released from Ofer Prison in the West Bank on October 13, 2025, in exchange for hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)
MANAMA, Bahrain — An International Committee of the Red Cross senior official urges Israel to lift its ban on the group visiting Palestinian detainees, denying that they were a security threat.
There was “no way in which our visits can pose a security threat or a national security threat” to Israel, ICRC director-general Pierre Krahenbuhl tells AFP in an interview.
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