Shuafat

Shuafat (Arabic: شعفاط‎‎ Šuʿafāṭ), also Shu'fat and Sha'fat, is a 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 Shu'fat 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 Mascar camp in the Jewish quarter of the Old City had been closed.

Shu'fat borders Pisgat Ze'ev and Beit Hanina on the north, Shu'fat refugee camp on the east, French Hill on the south, and Ramat Shlomo on the west. Shu'fat is located in the part of the West Bank which was included in the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem after its occupation in 1967.

The remains of two circa 7000 year old houses dating to the Chalcolithic Period were discovered during a salvage dig connected to the construction of a road and were presented in a press release in February 2016. The houses have well-preserved floors, containing various installations and an array of pottery vessels, flint tools, a basalt bowl, and a carnelian bead. Excavation director was Ronit Lupu. To date, this is the only Chalcolithic site in the Jerusalem area where houses, rather than just artefacts, have been found.

Before this find, it was already known that Shuafat has been the site of intermittent habitation since at least 2000 BCE.

Biblical identifications include Gebim, a village in north Jerusalem whose inhabitants fled the approaching Assyrian army, according to the Book of Isaiah,Mizpah in Benjamin, and Nob.Tell el-Ful is located on the neighbourhood's outskirts.

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