Application of the Geneva Conventions—particularly the fourth—in territory occupied by Israel

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In accordance with the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and with the agreement of the Powers concerned, the International Committee of the Red Cross has, for the past ten months, been pursuing its humanitarian action on behalf of the victims of the conflict of June 1967, through the intermediary of its delegations in the United Arab Republic, Israel, Jordan, Syria and the Lebanon, and of its sub-delegations in Jerusalem (occupied territory on the West Bank of the Jordan), Gaza (occupied territory of Gaza and the Sinai), and Kuneitra (occupied territory of the Golan Plateau).