On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis will raise humanitarian concerns about the Gaza Strip with Israel. On Tuesday evening in Jerusalem, he began a whirlwind visit by meeting representatives of three organisations active in the territory. "We are facing an information war," said the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) at the start of the discussion. "It is important for us to have first-hand information," he added. Around the table were the UN's provisional humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, as well as officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The hour and a half dialogue seems to have been useful. "It was a good discussion," FDFA spokesman Nicolas Bideau told Swiss news agency Keystone-SDA. "We were made aware in detail of the challenges of supplying humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza by ...
