When the war broke out on June 5, 1967, in the Near East, the International Committee of the Red Cross had already taken precautions by delegating representatives to Cairo, Tel Aviv, Beyrouth, Damascus and Amman.

The medical team installed at Amara in North Yemen worked at high pressure throughout May. Consultations averaged more than a hundred daily. The same sicknesses (amoeba, bilharzia, typhoid, scurvy, avitaminosis, etc.…) are repeatedly mentioned in each of the doctor-delegates' reports. An epidemic of malaria has been reported in the Amara area where it broke out after the rainy season in April, rainfall being exceptionally heavy this year. Dr. Pietro Duchini, doctor-delegate of the ICRC, had amongst other things to perform minor surgical operations, whose numbers were considerably increased as a result of military action. In the aid post set up by extremely rudimentary means he treated wounds of a more or less serious character caused by fire-arms, often complicated by open fractures, and carried out a large number of extractions of shrapnel. In spite of very insufficient conditions of asepsis, no septic complications took place in four months of daily surgical work.

Two brothers, Claudio and Antonio V., living in the USSR, wrote the Central Tracing Agency on February 26, 1967, asking it to trace their two sisters, Trinidad and Gloria V. who had been evacuated to France during the Spanish Civil War, when they themselves were taken to the U.S.S.R.

The Joint Commission entrusted with the distribution of the income of the Empress Shóken Fund met in Geneva on 17th March 1967. The Japanese Red Cross was represented by His Excellency Ambassador Mono Aoki.