Bodies of Three Missing Israeli Teens Found Near Hebron, Source Says

[MosheFeingold]

53. Sure

In 1948, the Jordanian forces invaded and occupied the Old City of Jerusalem (both the Jewish Quarter and the Moroccan Quarter -- which was previously called the "Mixed Quarter" because everyone lived there until the pogrom of 1929 when Jews were expelled) in an attempt to kill all the Jews. At least 1500 long-time Jewish residents fled as their homes were destroyed. Many were killed.

Abowd, The Moroccan Quarter: A History of the Present, in: Jerusalem Quarterly File (Institute of Jerusalem Studies), no. 7 (2000), pp. 6-1

The rag-tag IDF counterattack and began to regain this portion of the city. Much of the area was harmed in the fighting. The fleeing Jordanians shelled mercilessly and the Old City was ravaged, effectively making it uninhabitable.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-cements-ownership-of-jewish-quarter-in-jerusalem-s-old-city-1.241108

(Not a huge mystery. Concentrated artillery fire in about a 40 acre plot blew up a lot of buildings.)

Because the Jordanians refused to accept the lower-class Arab residents (and other refugees were dumped or found their way there), the area became a massive slum after the 1948 destruction. It had no sanitation, limited utilities, and collapsing buildings.

After many offers were made to purchase the properties and pay various residents (primarily squatters) for the land, the area was legally condemned, emminent domain used to take the land, and, as part of the 1967 fighting, cleared, with great care being taken to pay former residents far more than the market value of their land. It was traumatic to all involved and hard decisions were made.

http://books.google.co.il/books?id=erxEctr2oUUC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=Hajja+Rasmia+Tabaki,&source=bl&ots=BK_TvnOZO7&sig=i007Tf26X6TZ2SQVRdZ1QJj5INI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=hrqYUbyqDueC4AT5kIDwBw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Hajja%20Rasmia%20Tabaki%2C&f=true