as one the “greatest mass robberies in the history of Palestine”,89 Palestinian properties located in west Jerusalem were placed under the authority of the Custodian of Abandoned Property, and later of “Absentee” Property. In charge of administering the property, the Custodian in fact distributed it to any potential Jewish buyer. In total, these lands were estimated around 7,293 dunums for the city of Jerusalem only, excluding the lands in the surrounding villages such as Lifta or Deir Yassin, whose inhabitants were massacred.90 At the end of the war, Israel occupied an estimated of 10,000 homes belonging to Palestinian residents in west Jerusalem.91 2. 1967: Six Day War and Occupation The Six Day War, which occurred between 5 June 1967 and 10 June 1967, was immediately followed by home demolitions carried out by the Israeli forces. Indeed, between 10 and 12 June 1967, mass demolitions targeted the Mughrabi (Moroccan) Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem in order to create the Western Wall Plaza.92 In this historic neighborhood home to the Moroccan community of Jerusalem as well as to 12th century-buildings,93 650 Palestinians were instructed to leave their homes immediately at the end of the War. The following day, the Israeli authorities bulldozed 138 buildings in an attempt to completely erase the Mughrabi Quarter. Later in April 1968, a total of 116 dunums from the Mughrabi Quarter, Al Sharaf neighborhood and the Jewish neighborhood, was confiscated by the Israeli government in order to expand the Jewish Quarter and 89 Henry Cattan, Palestinian lawyer from West Jerusalem, quoted in Daliah Habash and Terry Rempel, “Assessing Palestinian Property in West Jerusalem”, BADIL, 2002, 167, Available at: https://www.badil.org/phocadownload/Badil_docs/publications/ Jerusalem1948-CHAP6.PDF 90 For more information on Deir Yassin massacre (9.04.1948) See: https://zochrot.org/ en/village/49106 91 Nathan Krystall, “The Fall of the New City, 1947-1950”, BADIL, 2002, 116, Available at: https://www.badil.org/phocadownload/Badil_docs/publications/ Jerusalem1948-CHAP4.PDF 92 Maryvelma Smith O’Neil, “The Mughrabi Quarter Digital Archive and the Virtual Illés Relief Initiative”, Jerusalem Quarterly, Issue 81, 53, n.d, Accessed 23 February 2022, Available at: The Mughrabi Quarter Digital Archive and the Virtual Illés Relief Initiative.pdf (palestine-studies.org) 93 Ibid, 52. 23