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From left Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Younis Al-Khatib, President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Noam Yifrach from Israel chairman of Magem David Adom and Micheline Calmy-Rey Federal Councillor of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs shake hands after a signing ceremony on operational arrangements between Magen David and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society at the International Conference Center in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, November 28, 2005. Red Cross partner organizations of Israel and the Palestinian Authority on Monday signed an agreement of mutual recognition, paving the way for the Jewish state's entry into the Red Cross movement. (KEYSTONE/Andree-Noelle Pot)