Ammunition Hill

Ammunition Hill was a fortified military post in the northern part of Jordanian-ruled East Jerusalem and the western slope of . It was the site of one of the fiercest battles of the Six-Day War.
Wikipedia
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Battlefield
  • Description: 1967 battle of the Six-Day War
  • Also known as: “Battle of Ammunition Hill”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Police National Headquarters and St. John.

Police station
The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in in . is situated 470 metres east of Ammunition Hill.

Hospital
Photo: Deror avi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is a charitable foundation which operates an ophthalmic in – one of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network – and satellite eye care clinics and hospitals in the and . is situated 510 metres southeast of Ammunition Hill.

Peak
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jerusalem is the largest city of Israel. Israel claims it as its capital and a few countries including the United States recognize that claim, but most other countries and the United Nations do not.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kiryat Menachem Begin and Sheikh Jarrah.

Neighborhood
, named after former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and also known as Kiryat HaMemshala, is a complex of government buildings in located between in the north, adjacent to in the east and Ammunition Hill in the west.

Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in , two kilometres north of the Old City, on the road to . It received its name from the 13th-century tomb of Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, a physician of Saladin, located within its vicinity.

Suburb
Photo: יהודה 01, CC0.
is an Israeli settlement and neighborhood in northern . It was built on land captured from Jordan in the Six-Day War and occupied by Israel since 1967, and was the first settlement built in beyond the Green Line by Israel.

Ammunition Hill

Latitude
31.79896° or 31° 47′ 56″ north
Longitude
35.22804° or 35° 13′ 41″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ6XH+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 280268893
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­battlefield
Wiki­data ID
Q2336243
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ammunition Hill” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “معركة تلة الذخيرة”
  • Chinese: “彈藥山戰爭”
  • Czech: “Bitva o Muniční vrch”
  • Finnish: “Ammunition Hillin taistelu”
  • Finnish: “Asevaraston kukkulan taistelu”
  • French: “bataille d’Ammunition Hill”
  • French: “Bataille d’Ammunition Hill”
  • Hebrew: “גבעת התחמושת”
  • Hebrew: “הקרב בגבעת התחמושת”
  • Hebrew: “הקרב על גבעת התחמושת”
  • Japanese: “弾薬の丘”
  • Polish: “Bitwa o Wzgórze Amunicyjne”
  • Portuguese: “Batalha da Colina da Munição”
  • Russian: “Бой за Арсенальную горку”
  • Russian: “Бой на Арсенальной горке”
  • Spanish: “Batalla de la Colina de la Municion”
  • Spanish: “Batalla de la Colina de la Munición”
  • Yoruba: “ogun Ammunition Hill”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ammunition Hill Memorial and Meirhoff Library.

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