The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a civilian convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces.
In 1948, following the UN Partition Plan and anticipating Israel's declaration of independence, access to Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem was blocked by the Arabs.
On April 13, a convoy of two Haganah escort cars, two ambulances and two buses set off for the hospital in the early morning.
No convoys were able to reach the hospital due to continued attacks on the road, and despite British assurances of assistance.
In the armistice agreement with Jordan, signed on April 3, 1949, the hospital became a demilitarized Israeli enclave, with a small adjacent no-man's-land and the rest of Mount Scopus and East Jerusalem becoming Jordanian.
The Israeli government and Hadassah donors then re-founded the hospital in Israeli West Jerusalem, with the original hospital staff.
The Mt. Scopus hospital only resumed medical services after the Six-Day War.
http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?id=1079
In 1948, following the UN Partition Plan and anticipating Israel's declaration of independence, access to Hadassah Hospital and the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem was blocked by the Arabs.
On April 13, a convoy of two Haganah escort cars, two ambulances and two buses set off for the hospital in the early morning.
No convoys were able to reach the hospital due to continued attacks on the road, and despite British assurances of assistance.
In the armistice agreement with Jordan, signed on April 3, 1949, the hospital became a demilitarized Israeli enclave, with a small adjacent no-man's-land and the rest of Mount Scopus and East Jerusalem becoming Jordanian.
The Israeli government and Hadassah donors then re-founded the hospital in Israeli West Jerusalem, with the original hospital staff.
The Mt. Scopus hospital only resumed medical services after the Six-Day War.
http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?id=1079
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