Mount Al -Mashraf (Scops) is located northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and it is in the north of Jabal Al -Zaytoun. In view of its strategic value, the Zionist movement has sought since the late nineteenth century to seize it in various ways, and it created huge buildings such as the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital.
the site
Jabal Al -Masharif is a mountain located north of Jerusalem, and it is a natural extension of Mount Zaytoun from the northeast to the north, and they are separated by a low called “Aqaba Al -Sweana”.
Wadi Al -Jawz is separated between Jabal Al -Masharif and the city of Jerusalem, and this mountain begins from the north of Shuafat camp, and ends with the Zaitoun Mountain.
Mount Al -Mashafar is about 850 meters from the sea, and 100 meters above the old town level in Jerusalem.
In the aftermath of the 1948 war, the mountain, according to the United Nations, was an isolated and isolated land located within the lands that are subject to the Jordanian authority until the 1967 war, and after the control of the Israeli occupation, Jabal Al -Masharaf became within the borders of the municipality of Jerusalem.
The Roman leader Titus in 70 AD set up his camp on him when he invaded and destroyed Jerusalem, and the Crusaders set up their camps upon him when they invaded the city.
The cause of the naming
Jabal Al-Masharaf was named by this name to supervise the city of Jerusalem, as it overlooks the “Jerusalem-Ramallah” road, and most of the armies coming to Jerusalem were landing its camps in it.
As for the word “Scopes”, it is Greek origin, and it means the observer or the viewer, and it is called the Hebrew “Har Hatsofim”.
Mustafa Murad Al -Dabbagh says in his book “Our Country of Palestine” that he has other names such as “Jabal Al -Mashhad” and “Jabal Al -Sweana”, and he adds that many consider the mountain of the outskirts as an extension of Mount Zaytoun in the northeast.
Mountains of Jabal Al -Masharaf
It is located on Mount Al -Masharif, several landmarks, most notably:
Hadassa Hospital
It is a hospital founded by Hadassah, the American Zionist Women Organization, and is still a source of a large part of its budget. It is the sixth largest medical center in Israel.
Its stone was laid in 1934, and its construction was completed in 1938 after the occupation of the western part of Jerusalem in 1948, and since it was located in East Jerusalem, it was under the control of the Jordanian army.
Hadassah Hospital opened sections in several neighborhoods west of Jerusalem, and in light of this the Zionist movement initiated the establishment of a hospital branch in the migrant village of Ain Karem, and it became a substitute for the basic hospital.
Initially, the Prime Minister of the occupation government, David Ben Gurion, opposed the establishment of the alternative hospital, and considered that this means that he will not be an argument in his hand in front of the Jordanian authorities to request the passage of the Zionist convoys into the “Hadassah Jabal Al -Masharaf” hospital, but he ultimately before that, and he began working to build the hospital in Ain Karem in 1956.
Hebrew University
It is an Israeli university in the city of Jerusalem. The first university in Palestine was learning in the Hebrew language, and the meeting at the eleventh Zionist conference in 1913 proposed the establishment of a university in Palestine learning in the Hebrew language.
A year later, the concerned authorities bought the land needed to build the university between the villages of Al -Issawiya and the two holy phases.
In the year 1918, the foundation stone for this university was placed at the top of the Mesharf Mountain, and it was officially opened in the year 1925 in the presence of Lord Arthur Balfour, the British High Commissioner and leaders of the Zionist movement.
The university is on the throne of academic institutions in Israel, and prominent personalities graduated from them in the field of research and other fields, and some of them also won the Nobel Prize, as it is classified as 64 in the world according to the “Shanghai Classification”, and 93 according to the “THE” classification.
British military cemetery
The cemetery of Jabal Al -Masharaf is located, along with the “Hadhasa Hospital”, and includes 2515 graves for soldiers from different countries, including one hundred unidentified soldiers.
In the cemetery a small church and a memorial on it the names of 3,300 soldiers who died in Palestine and Egypt, and they do not know their burial places.
The construction of the cemetery was completed in Mount Al -Mashafar in 1927, and was designed in proportion to the British European burials.
The ceremony is held in the ceremony to commemorate the end of the First World War in the second week of December every year, and these ceremonies are attended by some families of the soldiers buried there.
The Israel Antiquities Authority also said that it discovered – during one of the excavations in Jabal Al -Masharaf, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, a huge archaeological quarry dating back to BC, and its stones were used in buildings and roads inside the Jerusalem Wall and the town of Silwan.
It is noteworthy that, since its occupation, the Holy City has monopolized excavations and archaeological discoveries in it, and controls the information received in a way that serves its Judaization narration.
