Wouldn't it be the red crescent that is supposed to go? I understand if the red cross hasn't gone if they are being substitute by them.
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2023
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It's the same basic organisation. They use different logos to cater to different religious sensibilities
There is a big difference between the international group and the local affiliate. The families would for sure accept an ICRC official telling them "your son/daughter is still alive. I saw them myself this morning". I'm not sure the families would accept the same from a PRCS employee without further proof.
Same goes for the target audience of this news article. For the simple bigots, they could ask them which emblem they like the most and then present themselves with that.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the ICRC international who are supposed to visit the hostages, as they have been facilitating the release of both the hostages and the prisoners.
At this point, I think the families just want to know if their loved ones are still alive and don't care one bit if it's the ICRC or PRCS.
I agree it really doesn't matter who it is. Just wanted to make sure that this wasn't some confusion.
I get that, and that's the rational way of looking at it. Hamas aren't rational, though. They're a Salafist extremist group in a region that is continuously being bombed by the Christian West and thus not likely to accept anything with a Christian cross on it. It would be like having Perjury Greene sworn in on a Quaran or the Torah.
If part of the deal was that it HAS to be Red CROSS rather than Crescent, whomever drafted it is either incompetent or deliberately sabotaging the process.
The pictures of the hostages being released are pretty clear it's ICRC red cross, not PRCS that are handling that part at a minimum.
The deal text itself is not public to the best of my knowledge, so there's nothing to really go on.
It's the same basic organisation. They use different logos to cater to different religious sensibilities