Red Cross says it stands ready to facilitate release of hostages from Gaza

By AFP 15 January 2025, 10:42 pm

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A Red Cross vehicle carrying newly released hostages drives towards the Rafah border point with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross says the organization stands ready to help facilitate the release of the hostages from Gaza and the Palestinian security prisons from Israeli facilities, and to implement the agreed-upon ceasefire in the Strip.

“We are ready to facilitate any release operation as agreed by the parties so that hostages and detainees can return home,” ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric says in a statement, adding that the organization is “also prepared to massively scale up our humanitarian response in Gaza, where the situation demands it.”