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Abu Dis, Container (Wadi Nar), Ras Abu Sbitan (Olive Terminal), Wed 3.9.08, Morning

Place: Abu Dis / Lazarus gate (formerly The Wicket) Container (Wadi Nar) Ras Abu Sbitan (Olive Terminal)
Observers: Anat T., Shira V. (reporting)
Sep-03-2008
| Morning

 

 

06:55 Sheikh Saed

 
Traffic of persons crossing, including school children, flows.  Passage is through one turnstile which serves for both entry and exit.  According to residents of the neighbourhood, the turnstile has been breaking down periodically in the last few weeks. An elderly man, a cancer patient armed with permits, wishes to cross with his son, a resident of the neighbourhood, who has no permit.  The son is turned back and the sick father continues to the Augusta Victoria Hospital on his own.

 
08:00  Zeitim Crossing

 
Traffic flows fairly smoothly.  We entered the checkpoint, and when we turned back a small line formed within minutes opposite the only operative lane.  According to the two female soldiers operating it (not very efficiently, with frequent resort to loudspeakers) the computer in this lane, and also in another, had crashed.  We passed the check a few minutes later when the computer was restored.

08:40  Wadi Nar


 
Sparse traffic, flowing.  Transits detained and released within minutes.

  • Abu Dis / Lazarus gate (formerly The Wicket)

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      Abu Dis / Lazarus Checkpoint/Gate (east of the former “wicket”)

      Construction of the wall in the Abu Dis area blocked all the gaps that allowed people to cross from al-Ezariya to the neighbourhoods of Abu Dis and Ras al 'Amud that are located within Jerusalem’s municipal boundary. The Lazarus checkpoint is a gate in the wall adjacent to the Lazarus Monastery. Until 2011 it had a door for pilgrims to al-Ezariya and for the monastery’s kindergarten pupils from al-Ezariya. The crossing is currently closed, but the site has infrastructure for conducting inspections.

  • Container (Wadi Nar)

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    •  Wadi Nar Checkpoint ("Container", "The Kiosk") - a barrier for vehicles in Area B that is regularly manned - east of Abu Dis between Sawahra A Sharqiya and Bethlehem and its daughters. Controls Palestinian movement between the north and south West-Bank. Includes driving routes, access roads, spikes, traffic lights and signs. There is no pedestrian crossing. Open 24 hours a day with random checks enhanced on security alerts. The checkpoint is in Palestinian territory, allowing for separation between the north and the south Palestinian areas when necessary.

      In 2015, the leading road from Azaria to Bethlehem was renovated, as well as the steep and narrow ascent to the Wadi Nar checkpoint, which was dangerously travelled in both directions! The temporary checkpoint was renovated and expanded, and pedestrian traffic was banned. From 2016, traffic travelling from the south bank to Azaria was directed to a one-way road near the Southern Keydar Jewish settlement.

      Machsomwatch shifts visit this far-fetched checkpoint only occasionally.

      (updated to July 2019)

       

  • Ras Abu Sbitan (Olive Terminal)

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    • A large checkpoint/crossing to the area of a-Tur, Abu Dis and the Old City; only for pedestrians. Located on Jerusalem’s municipal boundary.

      One of the major crossings in Jerusalem’s central sector. It is located on the separation fence between the northern portion of the al-Ezariya neighborhood and the neighborhood of a-Tur and the rest of East Jerusalem. It is manned by Border Police soldiers and private security companies and operates 24 hours a day. Palestinians are forbidden to go through, other than permanent residents of East Jerusalem (holders of blue ID cards) and holders of work and commercial permits who are allowed through only on foot.

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