Red Cross denounces #Israel's “pattern of obstacles and confiscations” against #Bedouins
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Bedouin demonstrators gesture and chant slogans during a protest against the so-called #Prawer_Plan in the southern Isareli city of Beer Sheva on January 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP - David Buimovitch)
The Red Cross said Thursday it has suspended provision of tents to displaced Palestinians in the Jordan Valley, in a rare protest over Israeli “confiscation” of aid material. “We’re suspending the distribution of tents and shelter materials because we have seen a pattern of obstacles and confiscations since the beginning of 2013,” said Jon Martin Larsen, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Until now, the aid group had been distributing tents to Palestinians left homeless by Israel’s ongoing policy of house demolitions. read (...)
