Hamas: Red Cross Visit to Shalit Not Possible
MOHAMMED MAR'I | ARAB NEWS
RAMALLAH: Hamas rejected Friday an Israeli demand to allow representatives of the International Red Cross to visit kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday that Israel would not lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas agreed to allow representatives of the Red Cross to visit Shalit. The deputy chief of Hamas Politburo, Mousa Abu Marzouk, said in a press statement that the group will not allow visitors because that would compromise the secrecy of his hiding place. Abu Marzouk added that if Israel knew of Shalit's whereabouts in the Gaza Strip and could not gain his release, it would bomb the location in order to kill him. This would endanger the lives of Palestinians living in the vicinity, the official said.
According to Abu Marzouk, there is no connection between the blockade of Gaza Strip and the imprisonment of Shalit as Israel claims. He said Shalit's conditions are better than those of thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Abu Marzouk said that Shalit is enjoying his full rights unlike Palestinian prisoners.
He said negotiations to reach a deal between Israel and Hamas which would allow for the release of the Israeli soldier are currently frozen. Shalit has been in Palestinian captivity since he was captured in a 2006 cross-border raid.
In another development, Israeli policemen on Friday shot dead a Palestinian driver in Arab East Jerusalem after his car ran into them, an Israeli police spokesman and Palestinian medics said. It was unclear whether the incident, in which two officers were slightly wounded, was an accident or a deliberate attack.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said officers opened fire after a man whose car rammed into them, tried to flee on foot. Palestinian medical workers identified the victim as Ziad Al-Jolani.
— With input from agencies
Comment: This is not only clear violation of International law it violates the Hague Human Rights laws as well. The international community will look the other way and not hold Hamas' feet to the fire as will the Obama Administration. Couple this with the gift of tens of millions of USA taxpayer dollars to Hamas and you must now ask what is Obama's end game? Why the support of international law being broken? Are they not culpable? Yet, the audacity of Obama to insist upon intervening in Israel's right to defend herself-hypocrisy bordering on criminal.
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