Auction 60 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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LOT 168:

Report of the United Nations Mediator - Assistance to Palestinian Refugees - Paris, 1948

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Progress Report of the United Nations Acting Mediator on Palestine, Assistance to Refugees (General Assembly, Official Records: Third Session, Supplement No. 11A, A/689). Published by the United Nations, Paris, 1948. English.
A report about assistance to Palestinian refugees in Palestine - survey of the current situation, assistance operations already performed and necessary additional actions. Among others, the author of the report (mediator on behalf of the UN, Ralph Bunche) mentions the number of Palestinian refugees ("The actual total [of refugees] is also rising and will, it is believed, reach 500,000 within the next few weeks") and the material aid - food, clothes, blankets, shelter, medical aid, and more.
Ralph Bunche (1904-1971), an American diplomat and statesman, was the second mediator between Israel and the Arab states during the Independence war, laureate of Nobel Prize for peace in 1950 (for his significant contribution to the Rhodes agreements - cease-fire agreements signed at the end of the Israeli Independence War, and for other achievements).
III, 11, [1] pp, 31 cm. Good condition. Some creases.
Not in NLI.

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