Shuafat
Sign in to savethumb|300px|View of Shuafat Shuafat (), also ''Shu'fat and Sha'fat'', is a mostly Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, forming part of north-eastern Jerusalem. Located on the old Jerusalem–Ramallah road about three miles north of the Old City, Shu'fat has a population of 35,000 residents.
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- Etymology
- History
- Second Temple
- Roman and Byzantine empires
- Caliphates and Crusaders
- Ottoman Empire
- British Mandate
- Jordan
- Shuafat refugee camp
- Israel
- 20th century
- 21st century
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|300px|View of Shuafat Shuafat (), also ''Shu'fat and Sha'fat'', is a mostly Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, forming part of north-eastern Jerusalem. Located on the old Jerusalem–Ramallah road about three miles north of the Old City, Shu'fat has a population of 35,000 residents.
Next to the Shuafat neighbourhood there is a refugee camp of the same name, which was established by King Hussein of Jordan in 1965 to house Palestinian refugees from the Jerusalem, Lydda, Jaffa, and Ramleh areas, after the Muascar camp in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City had been closed.