The Red Cross extends its aid to several countries of the Near East where the war wrought much havoc. The ICRC has established delegations there and also sub-delegations in certain places. To give our readers a picture of Red Cross work “on the ground”, we describe the day to day activity of one of these. We therefore put questions to Miss L. Reymond, who stayed in Jerusalem until July 20, 1967, and lived through that period of great anxiety for the inhabitants of the old city and its outskirts.