2021-06-07 Mon

Gaza is a strip of territory along the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean bordered by the Egyptian Sinai to the west and Israel to the east. The population of Gaza is uniformly Arab and Muslim Gaza was part of the British Mandate Territory of Palestine until the 1948 war of Israeli independence. After the creation of Israel, Gaza was occupied by Egypt from 1948 until the Six-Day War in 1967.

After the Suez Crisis in 1957, United Nations peacekeepers, known as the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), were sent to the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza. India contributed military personnel to UNEF from its inception until its withdrawal in 1967. Over 11 years, more than 13,000 Indian troops served in the peacekeeping force in Gaza.

In 1965, India overprinted “UNEF” on 15-paise Nehru Medal and Rose stamps for use as military stamps by Indian peacekeepers in Gaza. The stamp depicts an Indian coin issued for the Birth anniversary of the 1st PM of India.

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