The head of the ICRC delegation inIsrael and the occupied territories, Julien Lerisson, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz.
“As a humanitarian organization, our job at the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) is to help people, all human beings affected by conflict. We do this work in some of the most difficult places in the world, sometimes successfully, and sometimes less so. We do this work with a methodology foreign to most: neutrality. We do not take sides in conflicts or controversies of a political, racial, religious or ideological nature. We try to be a bridge between warring parties, and act as an entity that is concerned only with the interests of the people affected, on both sides.”