Jordanian period
During the nineteen years of Jordanian rule, a third of the Jewish Quarter's buildings were demolished.
[29] According to Chief Rabbi
Rabbi I H Herzog speaking in Tel Aviv in June 1948, of 27 synagogues in the Old City, 22 had been "razed by fire and explosives".
[30] As part a letter sent by Israel to the United Nations in 1968 in response to Jordanian complaints, it was stated all but one of the thirty-five "Jewish houses of worship" in the Old City were destroyed and that "the synagogues" were "razed or pillaged and stripped and their interiors used as hen-houses or stables."
[23] According to
Dore Gold addressing the United Nations Security Council in 1998, "Fifty-eight synagogues, including the 700-year-old Hurva synagogue, were destroyed and desecrated."
[31] In the wake of the 1948 war, the
Red Cross housed Palestinian refugees in the depopulated and partly destroyed Jewish Quarter.
[32] This grew into the Muaska refugee camp managed by
UNRWA, which housed refugees from 48 locations now in Israel.
[33] Over time many poor non-refugees also settled in the camp.
[33] Conditions became unsafe for habitation due to lack of maintenance and sanitation.
[33] Jordan had planned transforming the quarter into a park,
[34] but neither UNRWA nor the Jordanian government wanted the negative international response that would result if they demolished the old Jewish houses.
[33] In 1964 a decision was made to move the refugees to a new camp constructed near
Shuafat.
[33] Most of the refugees refused to move, since it would mean losing their livelihood, the market and the tourists, as well as reducing their access to the holy sites.
[33] In the end, many of the refugees were moved to Shuafat by force during 1965 and 1966.
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