RAMALLAH, January 16, 2025 (WAFA) – President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas received today President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric at the presidential headquarters in the city of Ramallah, along with the President of the Red Crescent Society Younis Al-Khatib.

President Abbas thanked Spoljaric for her visit to the Gaza Strip over the past two days, and her close knowledge of the overall humanitarian conditions, in light of the ongoing war of genocide to which Palestinian people are being subjected there.

The President affirmed the position of the Palestinian leadership on the necessity of allowing Red Cross teams to bring humanitarian relief supplies into the Gaza Strip without restrictions.

President Abbas appreciated the role of the Red Cross in following up on the conditions of detainees in the Israeli prisons, stressing the necessity of obligating the occupation authorities to respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in dealing with them.

He also valued the partnership and continuous support between the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, praising the support provided by the Red Cross to the Palestinian Red Crescent and to the hospitals in the Strip, which suffer from a severe shortage of medical supplies.

The President stressed the importance of the International Red Cross's participation in a conference organised by Switzerland next March on the situation in Palestine, attended by the signatory states to the Geneva Conventions, due to its great political impact, as it focuses on the protection of civilians and the issue of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

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