ICRC is denied access to prisoners in what is said to be breach of Geneva conventions but critics say UK plan may weaken rule of law
People protest in front of the ICRC building in Gaza City in support of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, 6 May 2024.People protest in front of the ICRC building in Gaza City in support of Palestinians held in Israeli jails, 6 May 2024.Red Cross officials are to hold talks with the UK over a Foreign Office plan to visit Palestinian detainees held by Israel.
British officials argue even circumscribed visits to detainees is better than nothing, and is a valid way of checking whether reports of wholesale mistreatment of prisoners have validity. The ICRC values neutrality and confidentiality in its dealings with governments. In a statement to the Guardian, it reiterated that under the Geneva conventions, Palestinian detainees from the occupied territories should be treated as protected persons with access to the ICRC.
Chris Doyle, the director of the Council for Arab-British Understanding, said: “There is no transparency about Cameron’s alternative. What it risks doing is setting up a procedure that bypasses the ICRC … I very much doubt that two Foreign Office-appointed lawyers in the company of a judge from the occupying power are going to have the expertise of the ICRC, but will instead be taken around sanitised prisons.
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