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.