Battle of Ammunition Hill | |||||||
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Part of Six-Day War | |||||||
![]() Trenches on Ammunition Hill, 1967, with the apartment buildings of the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood in the background | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
Reinforced company | About 150 soldiers | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
36 killed | 71 killed |
Ammunition Hill (Hebrew: גִּבְעַת הַתַּחְמֹשֶׁת, Giv'at HaTahmoshet; Arabic: تلة الذخيرة) was a fortified Jordanian military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of Mount Scopus. It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.[1] Ammunition Hill is now a national memorial site.[2]