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The bodies of three French Truce Observers are carried out of St. Louis des Invalides by the French Air Force as the band, Garde Republicaine, plays. UN officials and relatives of the men look on.

Clinging to a bucket which has been improvised from an old powder milk container, a poor Moslem refugee boy in Damascus, Syria, waits for his daily share of milk, meat, fruit, cod liver oil sent by…

Refugee leaders meet with members of the Armistice Commission on the Israeli-Syrian frontier.

2024 marks the 30th observance of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, one of the darkest chapters in human history. More than one million people – overwhelmingly Tutsi, but also Hutu and others…

The Sun rises behind Long Island City skyscrapers at dawn of the first day of the general debate of the General Assembly's seventy-sixth session.

Palestinian refugees stand outside their tent. Khan Yunus, late 1940s.

Audiences of the Security Council.

Soldiers of a Danish-Norwegian battalion are breaking camp and loading their gear into trucks, in preparation for the movement into the Gaza Strip.

Scene at Khan Yunis in the Gaza area of Southern Palestine showing a refugee family outside their makeshift home. [between 1948-1949]

Prince Faisal Ibn Saud, Saudi Arabia's Minister for Foreign Affairs and Viceroy of Hejaz, arrives for the opening of the Second Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly convoked to…

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, centre, Acting U.N. Mediator for Palestine, in conference with Gen. A. Lundstrom, right, Chief Military Observer, Haifa, 1948.

In 1948, following the Palestine war, 200,000 Arabs took refugee in the Gaza strip; they have received help from the International Red Cross, the Egyptian Government, the Quakers and, since 1950, the…