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Israeli Supreme Court rules ban on ICRC visits to Palestinian detainees ... TEL AVIV, June 3, 2026 (WAFA) – The Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the policy enforced by the Israeli government since October 2023, which barred the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees and conveying information regarding their conditions, lacked a legal basis and must be revoked. The ruling was issued unanimously by the court panel, which concluded that the Israeli government had failed for more than two years to provide any legal basis for the policy, despite being afforded multiple opportunities throughout the proceedings to clarify and substantiate its justification. Israeli Supreme Court Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, who authored the principal opinion, said the case was characterized by exceptional circumstances. She noted that the state had submitted dozens of requests for postponements and deadline extensions over a period exceeding two years, whether for filing its initial response, detailed submissions, or supplementary briefs, resulting in substantial delays to the proceedings. She added that the court had exercised considerable patience but ultim…

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Israel must allow ICRC to visit Palestinians in prison, Supreme Court ... SHARE Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed. It also ruled that the government failed to present a legal foundation for its policy on annulling all visits after the Hamas-led attack on October 2023, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and more than 240 were taken captive. - Advertisement - The assault triggered a brutal war in Gaza, which has been defined as a genocide by several prominent scholars and an independent United Nations inquiry. The Israeli army killed more than 72,950 people in the enclave, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, and reduced most of the besieged territory to rubble, and forced the displacement of nearly 1.9 million Palestinians. Violence across the occupied West Bank perpetrated by Israeli forces also intensified to unpreced…

Palestinian rights groups warn of Israeli bill blocking Red Cross visits ... https://arab.news/g676d LONDON: Palestinian rights groups warned about an Israeli bill that would impose a blanket ban on representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross from entering Israeli prisons and visiting Palestinian detainees. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said the bill was proposed by the Israeli Knesset’s National Security Committee this week. Israel allowed ICRC workers to visit political detainees and pass information to their families after it occupied the Palestinian territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967. But since the war on Gaza in late 2023, Israel has started to ban ICRC representatives from visiting more than 9,000 Palestinian prisoners. Last week, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled that this policy was unlawful for lack of legal basis. Palestinian rights groups said the bill “aims to legitimize and legally entrench grave violations against the Palestinian people within the context of the ongoing genocide, of which Israeli prisons are a primary arena.” It added that …

Israel Must Allow ICRC To Visit Palestinians In Prison, Supreme Court ... News World 10 0 0 by Baina Media June 4, 2026 June 4, 2026 Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled on Wednesday that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed. It also ruled that the government failed to present a legal foundation for its policy on annulling all visits after the Hamas-led attack on October 2023, in which more than 1,100 people were killed and more than 240 were taken captive. The assault triggered a brutal war in Gaza, which has been defined as a genocide by several prominent scholars and an independent United Nations inquiry . The Israeli army killed more than 72,950 people in the enclave, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, and reduced most of the besieged territory to rubble, and forced the displacement of nearly 1.9 million Palestinians. Violence across the occupied West Bank perpetrated by Israeli…

The Supreme Court Rules: Red Cross Visits Must Resume Subscribe to ACRI's newsletter Donate to ACRI © Monjur Kader | Dreamstime.com June 3, 2026 Dear friend, Breaking news: Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously accepted ACRI’s petition against the ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian security prisoners. It ruled that in imposing this policy the government contravened Israeli and international law, and therefore the policy must be repealed. The Red Cross must be allowed to visit Palestinian security prisoners. For the first time in nearly three years, the over 9,000 Palestinian security prisoners being held in Israeli prisons and military detention centers will receive Red Cross visits. The government made it a point to disregard Israeli and international law during the Gaza War, but the Israeli Prison Service (IPS) under the auspices of the racist and extremist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, was an ignoble standout. All Red Cross visits to, and information about, Palestinian security prisoners being held in Israeli prisons and by the army were halted after the October 7 massacre and the subsequent outbreak of war. This was highly unusual: it was the first time in o…

Israel must allow ICRC to visit Palestinians in prison, Supreme Court rules Israel’s Supreme Court rejects government ban on prisoner visits, affirming Red Cross access under international law.