Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Attack on the medical convoy of Hadassah hospital and the Hebrew University
13 avril 1948·Jérusalem, mont Scopus
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The Hadassah hospital and the Hebrew University, on Mount Scopus, formed an isolated Jewish enclave in the northeast of Jerusalem, accessible only by a road running through Arab neighborhoods. Their supplies were delivered by convoy.
On the thirteenth of April, a convoy of doctors, nurses, students, and patients was stopped by a mine and then surrounded at the Cheikh Jarrah crossing. The siege lasted the entire day; the armored buses were set on fire at close range. British troops stationed nearby did not intervene until the evening.
The massacre occurred just days after that of Deir Yassin, in the cycle of reprisals of the civil war. Mount Scopus would remain a demilitarized enclave, cut off from the city, for nearly twenty years.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
Benny Morris, *1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War* ; Encyclopaedia Judaica.