Neutral body: A Palestinian Red Crescent member talking to Israeli soldiers positioned along a gateway during an army operation in Tulkarm in the occupied West Bank. When you see their emblems, it should be widely understood that the Red Cross and the Red Crescent do not take sides in a conflict, says the writer. — AFP
IN February I met a man. Three hours later, he was dead.
Mohammed Al-Omari was a paramedic with the Palestine Red Crescent Society; we met in southern Gaza. As the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, I’ve been one of very few people able to visit there this year. Mohammed smiled; we shook hands and had a brief conversation.
