In recent weeks, Israeli hostages were handed over to the Red Cross in a humiliating ceremony orchestrated by Hamas terrorists. Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor strongly condemned the Red Cross’s role, accusing it of serving the terrorists more than the hostages. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Helping Terrorists

Prosor called the Red Cross “Hamas’s Uber service” on X on January 25:

The Red Cross was established to protect hostages, ensuring they are visited and provided with food and medicine.

In Gaza, the Red Cross has completely failed. For 477 days, Israeli hostages were never visited. Their families were left in the dark, forced to endure the agony of not knowing whether their loved ones were alive or injured.

The only “updates” they received were Hamas propaganda videos—hostages crying and begging for help. The Red Cross? Silent. Absent. Irrelevant.

Now, in a grotesque and shameful spectacle, the Red Cross has reduced itself to Hamas’ Uber service.

Shame on them.

He wrote for Welt on January 26:

The International Red Cross is not doing its homework either: It is neither visiting the hostages nor bringing them vital medicines. Since the beginning of the war, 1,268 trucks have brought 15,580 tons of medical supplies to Gaza. However, the International Red Cross is unable to tell us whether any of this has reached the hostages, and it is keeping quiet about who is responsible for the hostage-taking. This is bitter, because it shows that these organizations are not there for all people in need. It seems to me that the hostages’ blood doesn’t have the right shade of red for the International Red Cross to feel responsible.

Last August, Welt wrote: “[T]here are numerous indications that the organization’s much-vaunted neutrality applies little when it comes to the population of the Jewish state. … In fact, Welt’s research shows that 85 percent of the posts deal with the situation in Gaza.” The article described the disappointment of family members of hostages. It stated:

According to the icrc [International Committee of the Red Cross], over 900 Palestinian prisoners have received direct financial support for their return to Gaza following their release, as have 40,000 people since the outbreak of the war. However, there has been no such assistance for the 100,000 refugees and farmers in Israel’s south and north.

This is shameful, but it aligns with the organization’s history.

Helping Nazis

The International Red Cross was founded in Switzerland in 1863 and began establishing national societies around the world. It was instrumental in causing governments to adopt the original Geneva Convention, which obliged armies to care for wounded soldiers.

Its biggest failure came during World War ii. The icrc website admits to “the failure to help and protect the millions of people who were exterminated in the death camps.” The German Red Cross fell into Nazi hands and refused to give any information on “non-Aryan” detainees. But the icrc discovered what was going on through American and British intelligence—yet did almost nothing.

But it gets worse. In “The Red Cross and the Holocaust,” the Morasha Institute of Culture wrote:

At times, the icrc became an accomplice, contributing to Nazi propaganda and sympathizing with the Nazis during and after the war. …

Throughout the 1930s, when it came to Jews, the icrc delegated the matter to the German Red Cross, even though it was known to be “deeply Nazified” and its leaders were participating in persecution and genocide. When Hitler’s concentration camp system was initially implemented, the German Red Cross assured the icrc that “the standard of living in the [concentration] camps was higher than that to which most prisoners were accustomed.” …

After examining Red Cross documents, historians concluded that the international humanitarian organization had known about the “final solution of the Jewish question” since the spring of 1942. Yet it failed to alert the world and help and protect millions of victims.

Gerald Steinacher’s book Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice reveals how the Vatican Refugee Commission used the Red Cross to help Nazis escape after World War ii. He writes: “Although the icrc has publicly apologized, its action went well beyond helping a few people.”

After analyzing thousands of internal documents in the archives of the icrc, Steinacher revealed how mass murderers such as Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Klaus Barbie and others escaped after the war. The Guardian commented on the book in “Red Cross and Vatican Helped Thousands of Nazis to Escape,” writing that “correspondence between Red Cross delegations in Genoa, Rome and Geneva shows it was aware Nazis were getting through.”

As icrc vice president Jean Pictet stated in 1979: “Guilty persons themselves are not excluded from this assistance if they have need of it, a fact which has sometimes not been well understood.”

According to Steinacher, the Red Cross issued at least 120,000 travel papers that enabled thousands of Nazis to escape to North and South America, Spain and the Near East. (To learn more about the Vatican’s role, read “The Ratlines.”)

While the Red Cross admits this happened, it claims it was deceived. But as the Morasha Institute of Culture notes, unlike the International Refugee Organization, the Red Cross “conducted virtually no screening procedures and made its travel documents available to virtually any applicant.” It is no coincidence that the Nazis gravitated to their help.

A Failure of the Red Cross—a Failure of Humanity

How did the Red Cross get away with such shameful actions? Why is its cooperation with the Vatican to help Nazis escape so little discussed? How does it receive millions in funding to help terrorists?

The Bible reveals the shocking answer. It shows that mankind has chosen a path cut off from God.

The late Herbert W. Armstrong explained in Mystery of the Ages:

When God “drove out the man” from the Garden of Eden, and barred reentrance—lest he go back and receive eternal life in sin (Genesis 3:22-24)—God pronounced sentence!

God said, in effect: “You have made the decision for yourself and the world that shall spring from you. … Go, therefore, Adam, and all your progeny that shall form the world, produce your own fund of knowledge. Decide for yourself what is good and what is evil. Produce your own educational systems and means of disseminating knowledge, as your god Satan shall mislead you. Form your own concepts of what is god, your own religions, your own governments, your own lifestyles and forms of society and civilization. In all this Satan will deceive your world with his attitude of self-centeredness—with vanity, lust and greed, jealousy and envy, competition and strife and violence and wars, rebellion against me and my law of love. …”

Satan is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4), and he has deceived the whole world (Revelation 12:9). Since the Jewish people have a particular history with the true God, Satan has a special hatred for them, as explained in “The One Minority Society Loves to Hate.” This reveals the source of our conflicts.

The Bible also reveals the solution. Even though God cut off mankind from the tree of life, He has not abandoned us. He is working out a marvelous plan to bring mankind to salvation, as explained Mystery of the Ages. Request a free copy.