Summary
The Red Cross body whose officer made a preliminary survey of the Palestine refugees on the spot in July 1948, and which, in the United Nations Mediator’s progress report, arranged to work in unison with the International Red Cross Committee in the relief effort (Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, line 2451, line 2515).
Details
- The senior Department of Social Affairs official the Mediator obtained from the Secretary-General on 21 July 1948 proceeded at once to Palestine to make a rapid survey of the refugee situation, linking up his enquiries with a preliminary survey of refugees which had been made on the spot by an officer of the League of Red Cross Societies (Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, line 2451).
- An encouraging response was made by the League of Red Cross Societies and the Committee of the International Red Cross, which arranged to work in unison, to the Mediator’s direct appeals for aid, and organizational arrangements were set in hand by both bodies (Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, line 2515).
Related pages
Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine, United Nations Mediator on Palestine, International Committee of the Red Cross, World Council of Churches