Field Coverage

U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai Peninsula

1 January 1957

Ever since mid-December, when the Israeli forces started their withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, units of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), have been advancing behind them to occupy the positions just abandoned and help maintain order.
Here a Swedish officer Captain Gerhart Svedlund announces to the inhabitants of the village "El Tor" the imminent evacuation of the town by the Israeli forces, and arrival of an Indian contingent of UNEF. [No exact date]

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