The Red Cross During War

Arab-Israeli conflict, Egypt, 1973. Egyptian soldiers repatriate a body of a fellow combant under the protection of the Red Cross in the no man's land in the Port Fouad region.
Max Vaterlaus / ICRC

Cross to Bear
Nearly ten years on, in 1973 during the Arab-Israeli conflict, Egyptian soldiers repatriate a body under the protection of the Red Cross in the no man's land of the Port Fouad region. This dispute originally started out as a political conflict over territorial ambitions following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.

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