Moroccan Quarter

Summary

Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City (Al-Magharbeh) that Israel demolished as soon as it controlled Jerusalem in June 1967; its site is now the open Western Wall plaza, a history only alternative or solidarity tours narrate at the site, as presented in Chapter 4 of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.145-146).

As Grassroots Al-Quds writes in Wujood: “If during your visit to the Old City you find your way to Al-Buraq Wall (or the Western Wall) and see the Jewish worshippers in the yard, remember that prior to 1967 dozens of Palestinian homes once stood here. The quarter had been a Muslim Waqf since 1193 and was home to one thousand Palestinian residents, who were then displaced to Shufat Refugee Camp and elsewhere in Jerusalem” (PDF p.145).
The Western Wall complex is currently an open area thronged with tourists, tour guides, worshippers and soldiers, where tour guides assemble different groups telling different narratives; only those on alternative or solidarity tours will hear that the site was the Moroccan Quarter, whose inhabitants have been exiled to refugee camps outside of the Old City (PDF p.145).
Solidarity tourists in the Old City walk from Damascus Gate, through the Muslim Quarter, to the Western Wall Plaza and site of the demolished Moroccan Quarter (PDF p.147).

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aliases	Al-Magharbeh