 After its capture during the Six-Day War, Israel annexed about half of al-Walaja's remaining land, including the neighborhood Ain Jawaizeh, to the Jerusalem Municipality.Large parts of the land were confiscated for the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier and the Israeli settlements of Har Gilo and Gilo, one of the Ring Neighborhoods of Jerusalem.In 1596, al-Walaja appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the "Nahiya" of Quds of the "Liwa" of Quds.