Moshe Bartur, Israel’s permanent representative at the European headquarters of the United Nations, today requested the International Red Cross Committee here to send to Israel immediately a team of qualified medical personnel to investigate the mental and physical conditions of the II Israelis released from Syrian prisons Saturday.
According to the Israeli request, such medical examinations are necessary at once, since the Israelis had been subjected to extraordinarily cruel treatment while in Syrian hands. Israel’s request is expected to be complied with by the International Red Cross here.
(At the United Nations, today, Michael S. Comay, Israel’s permanent representative, sent a letter to Secretary-General U Thant, informing him of the request to the International Red Cross. In the letter, Mr. Comay quoted Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister, as declaring that eight of the II Israelis returned in the prisoner exchange Saturday bad “suffered physical distress and mental and emotional disorder as a result of the inhuman conditions under which they had been kept (in Syria) and the torture and abuse to which they had been subjected.”)
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