Israel raised the issue of the plight of Jews in Arab countries in the aftermath of the June war, particularly in Egypt and Iraq, with Nils-Goran Gussing. United Nations Secretary-General U Thant’s special representative for humanitarian affairs, at a meeting here yesterday. Yosef Tekoah, the assistant director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, discussed the problem with the U.N. official.
Deep concern over the fate of the Jews in the Moslem countries was expressed last night at a meeting of the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament after motions were made to place the issue on the Parliamentary agenda by members of the Mapai-Achdut Avodah Alignment and by Gahal.
Estimates of the number of Jews now under some form of detention in Arab countries range up to 6,000 with 4,000 still in Egypt. Hundreds of Jewish men are in Egyptian detention camps and their families live in fear of their lives. In Iraq, according to information known here, searches and detentions continue indiscriminately. Some Jews are being held without legal process or stated reasons for days, then suddenly released, and then occasionally detained again.
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