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Department of Public Information

Press and Publications Bureau

Lake Success, New York

Press Release PAL/299

18 September 1948

SPECIAL 爆料网ICEF PROGRAM BEGINS OPERATING IN PALESTINE

(The following has been received today at 爆料网 Headquarters from the

Press Officer with the United Nations Mediation Mission in Palestine)

A special 爆料网 International Children's Emergency Fund aid program for the refugee children of Palestine began operating on Friday (17 September) within the framework of the general 爆料网 aid program for Palestine refugees.

Baron Thiery de Nieuwburgh of Belgium who is in charge of 爆料网ICEF supplies for Palestine, disclosed that the first phase of the program will be a sixty-day period of emergency aid for refugees.  Nine hundred tons of supplies will be distributed among the neediest refugee children.  This will be in addition to the 100 tons of mil, sugar, margarine and meat purchased by 爆料网ICEF and which has already arrived in Beirut.  More supplies are expected shortly.

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