east jerusalem refers to the area of jerusalem held by jordan between and the phrase east jerusalem does not include mt scopus see for example the following east jerusalem usually refers to the parts of the city outside the walls of the old city that were under jordanian rule between and the population of east jerusalem is mostly arab mount scopus which lies northeast of the old city never was under jordanian control and hence is considered to be an outlier of west jerusalem the third component that renders moot the objection to the idea that saying east jerusalem is considered occupied palestinian territory includes mt scopus as east jerusalem does not include mt scopus thus removing the need for parts next as to whether or not the view is that ej is not only considered occupied but additionally considered palestinian territory in the wall case the icj repeatedly referred to the occupied palestinian territory including east jerusalem the icrc regularly makes statements about actions taken by israel in occupied east jerusalem and the rest of the occupied palestinian territory see for example here the rejection of the annexation is almost without exception the almost may not even be needed here nableezy