The following is an exchange held during the January 23 Daily Press Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Spokesperson: ... Yeah, other questions, please? Masood?
Question: Yes, on this race incarceration in… I mean, removal by the Israeli authorities of three Palestinian legislators from the International Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem… I mean, and so I understand article 49 of [inaudible] Geneva Convention prohibits Israel, the occupying Power, to remove these people from there and take them away. Do you have any comment? Has the Secretary-General any comment on that?
Spokesperson: I don’t have any specific comment on that, Masood, at the moment, no. No, I don’t. Yes?
Question: But you are aware of this?
Spokesperson: Yes, aware, but I don’t have any specific comment at the moment.
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2012/db120124.doc.htm
Masood was so concerned that he again asked about the Palestinian legislators on January 24 and received the answer that the spokesperson had no update.
The New York Times reported on the incident and detailed the following information.
Cecilia Goin, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said by telephone that the organization had informed the three from the start that they could stay on the premises, but that the Red Cross did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and could not prevent the Israeli authorities from arresting them. The organization had also informed the Israeli authorities that the three were on the premises, she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/world/middleeast/israeli-police-arrest-2-protesting-palestinian-legislators.html?_r=1
So, Masood, here you have your answer.
Incidentally, Leo Rennert discusses the New York Times article in a post at American Thinker titled NY Times news judgment: Arrests of Hamas officials or Jerusalem Mufti's call to kill Jews?
Spokesperson: ... Yeah, other questions, please? Masood?
Question: Yes, on this race incarceration in… I mean, removal by the Israeli authorities of three Palestinian legislators from the International Red Cross offices in East Jerusalem… I mean, and so I understand article 49 of [inaudible] Geneva Convention prohibits Israel, the occupying Power, to remove these people from there and take them away. Do you have any comment? Has the Secretary-General any comment on that?
Spokesperson: I don’t have any specific comment on that, Masood, at the moment, no. No, I don’t. Yes?
Question: But you are aware of this?
Spokesperson: Yes, aware, but I don’t have any specific comment at the moment.
http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2012/db120124.doc.htm
Masood was so concerned that he again asked about the Palestinian legislators on January 24 and received the answer that the spokesperson had no update.
The New York Times reported on the incident and detailed the following information.
Cecilia Goin, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said by telephone that the organization had informed the three from the start that they could stay on the premises, but that the Red Cross did not enjoy diplomatic immunity and could not prevent the Israeli authorities from arresting them. The organization had also informed the Israeli authorities that the three were on the premises, she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/world/middleeast/israeli-police-arrest-2-protesting-palestinian-legislators.html?_r=1
So, Masood, here you have your answer.
Incidentally, Leo Rennert discusses the New York Times article in a post at American Thinker titled NY Times news judgment: Arrests of Hamas officials or Jerusalem Mufti's call to kill Jews?
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