An Israel supply convoy, delayed nearly three weeks by a dispute between Israel and the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization over a roadblock on Mount Scopus, went up the height today without incident.
The convoy carried relief guards and various supplies, including Passover foods, because the guards on the old Hebrew University campus and the Hadassah hospital ?rounds will be celebrating Passover before the next supply train is escorted through the Jordan lines by UN officers.
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