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Message Released by the United Nations Security Council on January 26, 1949
S/1227
Cablegram Dated 25 January 1949 From the Acting Mediator to the Secretary-General Transmitting the Text of an Under taking on Food and Medical Convoys for Al Faluja
To the President of the Security Council: I have the honour to report the following text of an undertaking on food and medical convoys for Al Faluja entered into at Rhodes on 24 January 1949 by the delegation of Israel.
[Page 700]“Undertaking on Food and Medical Convoys for Al Faluja
The undersigned, on behalf of the Provisional Government of Israel, hereby undertakes that pending the evacuation of Al Faluja, and subject to review at the conclusion of the present Rhodes negotiations, food and medical supplies for the sustenance of the garrison and civilian population in Al Faluja, in such quantities as may be determined by the Chief of Staff of the Truce Supervision Organization, shall be granted unobstructed passage from present Egyptian lines to Al Faluja in convoys exclusively under United Nations supervision and escort. The Chief of Staff shall inform the designated representative of the Government of Israel of the quantities of supplies, the number of vehicles and the times of all such projected convoys, and shall take into account such recommendations relating thereto as said designated representative may deem it necessary to make.”1
- Pursuant to this agreement four separate convoys, supervised and escorted by United Nations personnel, entered al-Faluja with food and medical supplies for Egyptian military forces and civilians resident there, on January 28 and February 4, 11, and 18. These operations were carried out without incident (cablegrams by Mr. Bunche to Secretary-General Lie, dated January 29 and February 4, 11, and 18, which were released by the Security Council as S/1236, S/1243, S/1255, and S/1262, respectively).↩