 During the period when the neighborhood was divided, a two-foot high barbed wire fence was erected down the middle of the main street with Arab Legionnaires and Israeli soldiers guarding on each side.In 1961, the Jordanian census showed a population of 1,025 in Beit Safafa.After the Six-Day War in 1967, the whole of Beit Safafa has been under Israeli occupation, and the fence between the east and the west part was taken down.