GPS June 2020

”Old City”) on July 27, 1967. Mail sent to the Old City in Jerusalem was
routed through Amman, Jordan and could not now be delivered because
of the Israeli occupation. On September 19, 1967 the Jewish Telegraph
Agency reported the following:
“Israel post office workers were engaged today in sorting
out the contents of 500 sacks of mail addressed to residents of
East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which the Jordanian postal
authorities had turned over to the International Red Cross. The
mail had been posted from all parts of the world prior to the June
fighting and the addresses to which it had been directed were
then part of Jordan.
In view of the flight of so many residents of the West Bank
during the June fighting, it is doubtful whether much of this
mail will ever reach the addressees. In any case, the Israeli postal
workers are sorting the mail so that delivery can be made to all
recipients who can be located.” (Reference 1, p. 255)
Image 5, front and back
Image 5 shows an example of Jordanian mail delivered to Israel via
the International Red Cross. The cover was mailed on June 14, 1967
from Hamburg to the Old City in Jerusalem. It arrived at Amman,
Jordan on June 20, 1967 and was held until September 1967, when it
was turned over to the International Red Cross for delivery to Israel.
It was cancelled in Jerusalem on September 29, 1967 and delivered to
Mr. Khatchudourian at P.O. Box 4003, Old City. A Google search
found that Mr. Khatchudourian, an Armenian guide who gives tours
of the Old City, still uses this address. Relatively few examples of this
International Red Cross-facilitated mail has survived.
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