Three Israeli policemen were wounded in a gun battle with Jordanian troops on Mt. Scopus when Israel sought to make a humanitarian gesture to Jordanian civilians under supervision of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
After exchanges of fire the UNTSO managed to intervene to save the three wounded; One was seriously hurt. The Jordanian fired from the top of Augusta Victoria tower in a deliberate abuse of arrangements made by UNTSO for Jordanian civilians to work on fields.
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