a population of 333, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to a population of 558; 7 Christians and the rest Muslim, occupying 117 houses. In the 1945 statistics the population of Isawiya was 730; 720 Muslims and 10 Christians, who owned 10,108 dunams of land while 235 dunams had Jewish owners, according to an official land and population survey. 3,291 dunams were used for cereals, while 47 dunams were built-up (urban) land. 1948-1967 The Mount Scopus Agreement signed on July 7, 1948, regulated the demilitarised zone and authorized the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization to settle disputes between Israel and Jordan. One area of conflict involved two Jewish-owned plots in Issawiya, known as Gan Shlomit or Salomons Garden, which were purchased by V.F. Salomons in 1934 and sold to the Gan Shlomit Company, Ltd. in 1937. In 1961, the population was 1,163, according to a Jordanian census. In 1964, Issawiya had a population of 1,300. It was located at this time within the Mount Scopus demilitarized zone, an unsupervised demilitarized zone between Jordan and Israel. Post-1967 Isawiya has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967. In that year Israel expropriated approximately one quarter of Isawiya's lands (2,230 dunams). In January 1968 it appropriated a further 600 dunams. In 1975, 2,900 dunams of Isawiya land not annexed to Jerusalem were also expropriated as part of the development of Ma'ale Adunim. Some 100 dunams were then confiscated in 1982 to built route 1. From the mid eighties to the early 2000s Israel also reclassified another 3,800 dunams of Isawiya land not under cultivation as Israeli state land, and, in 2002 seized another 45 dunams to establish the Metzudat Adumim Border Police base, a measure which blocked Isawiya residents from accessing the little arable land left to them. By 2020, a development plan for an interchange near the eastern entrance to the village foresaw a prohibition on Isawiya residents from using a further 90 dunams. The Israel Nature and Parks Authority, together with the Jerusalem Municipal Council plans also to expropriate approximately a further 900 dunams, 450 for the Mount Scopus Slopes National Park and 450 for a construction-waste and dirt landfill. B'tselem has claimed that since the beginning of the occupation Israel has taken 90% of Isawiya's land, using a variety of devices from outright expropriation, declaring areas “state land” to military seizure. According to ARIJ, Issawiya had