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Abu Dis, Container (Wadi Nar), Wed 13.2.08, Morning

Place: Abu Dis / Lazarus gate (formerly The Wicket) Container (Wadi Nar)
Observers: Edna P., Anat T. (reporting)
Feb-13-2008
| Morning
08:45 Wadi Naar (the container)

There is one detained taxi when we arrive, and it is released immediately. The DCO representative approaches us, and he tells us that he will stay  there all day long.


 
We tell him about a phone call Anat got yesterday noon from a taxi driver, and he had told her about people that were thrown on the floor, and were beaten. The humanitarian center was inquiring, and inquiring through the Zeitim DCO, but got no answer despite a few approaches. He knows nothing about the case, but he was not there yesterday. He tells us that if the checkpiont will not be evacuated, it will be enlarged, and built as a permanent building. This is very strange, since we where always told that this is an internal checkpoint, among the first to be abolished in Jerusalem area.

 
While we were there – about twenty minutes, there were no delays at the place.

  • 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)

       

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