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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem
- Also known as: “Shu‘fāţ” and “Shu’fat”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tall Al-Ful and French Hill light rail depot.
Tall Al-Ful
Archaeological site
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gibeah is the name of three places mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in the tribes of Benjamin, Judah, and Ephraim respectively. Gibeah of Benjamin, also Gibeah of Saul, is the most commonly mentioned of the places.
Police National Headquarters
Police station
The National Headquarters of the Israel Police is the headquarters of the Israel Police, located in Kiryat Menachem Begin in East Jerusalem.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include French Hill and Givat HaMivtar.
French Hill
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
French Hill, also Giv'at Shapira is an Israeli settlement in northern East Jerusalem. It is located on territory that has been occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 and later unilaterally annexed by Israel under the Jerusalem Law, in a move internationally condemned as illegal, "null and void" under international law, in 1980.
Givat HaMivtar
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Givat HaMivtar is an Israeli settlement and a neighborhood in East Jerusalem established in 1970 between Ramat Eshkol and French Hill. It is located on a hill where an important battle took place in the Six Day War.
Shuafat refugee camp
Suburb
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shu'fat, or more commonly Shuafat, is a Palestinian refugee camp in Jerusalem jurisdiction located next to Shuafat, a Palestinian Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem.
Shuafat
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: West Bank, Palestine, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.81076° or 31° 48′ 39″ northLongitude
35.23521° or 35° 14′ 7″ eastElevation
790 metres (2,592 feet)Open location code
8G3QR66P+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 334464842OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Shuafat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شعفاط”
- Arabic: “شعفاط”
- Catalan: “Shuafat”
- Czech: “Šu’afat”
- Czech: “Šu’afát”
- Czech: “Šu’fat”
- Czech: “Šuafat”
- French: “Shuafat”
- German: “Schu’fat”
- Hebrew: “שועפאט”
- Hebrew: “שועפאת”
- Hebrew: “שועפט”
- Hebrew: “שועפת”
- Hebrew: “שעפאט”
- Indonesian: “Shuafat”
- Italian: “Shuafat”
- Macedonian: “Шуафат”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shuafat”
- Norwegian: “Shuafat”
- Polish: “Szuafat”
- Polish: “Szufat”
- Russian: “Шуафат”
- Spanish: “Shuafat”
- Turkish: “Şuafat”
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