Requesting the restoration of a “lawful situation in the Mount Scopus area” in accordance with the Israel-Jordan agreement of July 7, 1948, the Israel Foreign Ministry has asked U. N. truce chief General William Riley to take the necessary steps to bring about the agreed upon situation in the village of Issawiya, in the Mt. Scopus region.
According to the 1948 pact, only 150 Arab inhabitants were permitted to return to Iasawlya, which was evacuated during the Arab-Israel war. Israel claims that there are now more than 1,000 Arabs living in the village. Israel also complains that “nothing has been done” to re-open the Hadassah Hospital in the Mount Scopus demilitarized zone whereas United Nations agencies have set up a hospital in the Augusta Victoria Building, in violation of the general armistice agreement.
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