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Abu Dis, Wadi Nar, Tue 28.6.11, Morning
Observers: Einat Friedman, Avital Toch (reporting)
Wadi Nar
A surprise awaits us in Wadi Nar — new concrete blocks between the road to the old Kedar and the turn to the checkpoint.
Beyond the blocks, there is a new road for traffic travelling north to El Azariya.
But what about those who need the old road? Now it's clear, they'll have to perform an enormous detour.
Our Abu Dis shifts reported on the paving works in May and June:
"…Traffic from the south of the Weat Bank will be directed to El Azariya along the old descent (the Gihaline we used once upon a time), and one-way traffic from the north of the West Bank and from El Azariya will use the dangerous ascent to the Wadi Nar checkpoint and from there to the south of the West Bank. A. from the civil administration is unable to say just when all this will happen. Nor do we know if a manned checkpoint will be set up near the blocks leading to the new Kedar road. A. too is unable to tell…"
Note: If A. cannot tell, who can? the Palestinians? They are neither the instigators nor the builders of these hallucinatory roads dividing children from their schools, parents from their workplace, and families from each other, to say nothing of the continuing devastation of hills and vegetation.
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.
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