Shuafat refugee camp

Shu'fat, or more commonly Shuafat, is a Palestinian refugee camp in jurisdiction located next to , a Palestinian Arab neighborhood of .
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: Palestinian refugee camp in East Jerusalem
  • Also known as: “Shu’fat camp” and “Shu’fat Camp”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tall Al-Ful and Jerusalem War Cemetery.

Archaeological site
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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.

Cemetery
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The is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in for fallen servicemen of the Commonwealth in the World War I in the Palestine campaign.

Cave
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include ’Anata and Pisgat Ze’ev.

Town
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'Anata is a Palestinian town in the of the State of Palestine, in the central , located four kilometers northeast of Jerusalem's Old City.

Suburb
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Pisgat Ze'ev is an Israeli settlement in and the largest residential neighborhood in with a population of over 50,000. Pisgat Ze'ev was established by as one of the city's five Ring Neighborhoods on land effectively annexed after the 1967 Six-Day War.

Suburb
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, also Shu'fat and Sha'fat, is a mostly Palestinian Arab neighborhood of , forming part of north-eastern . Located on the old Jerusalem– road about three miles north of the Old City, Shu'fat has a population of 35,000 residents.

Shuafat refugee camp

Latitude
31.81173° or 31° 48′ 42″ north
Longitude
35.24714° or 35° 14′ 50″ east
Open location code
8G3QR66W+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2424000646
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q17269988
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Shuafat refugee camp” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مخيم شعفاط”
  • Armenian: “Շուաֆատ փախստականների ճամբար”
  • Catalan: “Camp de Shuafat”
  • Czech: “uprchický tábor Šu’afát”
  • French: “Shu’fat”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה הפליטים שועפאט”
  • Hebrew: “מחנה פליטים שועפט”
  • Italian: “Campo di Shuafat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shu’fat Camp”
  • Norwegian: “Shu’fat Camp”
  • Persian: “اردوگاه شعفاط”
  • Polish: “Muchajjam Szufat”
  • Portuguese: “Campo de refugiados de Shu’fat”
  • Russian: “Лагерь беженцев Шуафат”
  • Spanish: “Campamento de Shuafat”
  • Spanish: “Campamento de Shufat”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Masjid and The Popular Committee - Shu’fat Camp.

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