What the records say
- When
- 13 Apr 1948
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 77
- Coordinates
- 31.79° N, 35.23° E
- Description
- About 80 Jews on a civilian convoy to Mount Scopus enclave, including medical personnel, slaughtered by Muslim Arabs living in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem against the indifference of the British forces during the inter-communal stage of the 1948 War
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Hadassah medical convoy massacre takes place, in British Mandatory Palestine”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “l’attaque d’un convoi médical qui vient assurer la relève à l’hôpital Hadassa du Mont Scopus par des troupes arabes fait 79 morts”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ハダサー医療従事者虐殺事件”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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