Red Cross: No signs of life from abducted IDF troops in Lebanon

[oberliner]

The Red Cross has been unable to transfer letters written by their families to the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah last summer, nor was it able to obtain any signs of life from Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, a Red Cross official told representatives of the families in Brussels on Tuesday.

Though the organization promised to keep trying, Goldwasser's mother Miki was infuriated by the news. It is inconceivable, she said, that the Red Cross could not transmit letters to her sons through Hezbollah when the organization is an official party that sits in Lebanon's parliament.

The families, who arrived in Brussels on Tuesday, also met with the speaker of the Belgian parliament, who promised to try and obtain information about the soldiers from his Lebanese counterpart, Nabih Berri.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793999.html

[sabbat hunter]

1. they are probably dead

and have been so for some time.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. I have thought so too.

I am hoping I am wrong, but I feel either one or both are dead. Isn't it a violation of international law not to allow the Red Cross access to prisoners of war?