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Cliff Hotel

Place: Cliff Hotel
Observers: Chana G.,Julia W.,Rahel W.
Mar-22-2005
| Afternoon

Abu Dis, Wadi NarTue. 22.03.05 p.m.Observers; Chana G., Julia W., Rahel W. (reporting) guestWhen we arrived at the pishpash at about 2:15, there was a border police jeep with about 5 border police. However, people continued to climb the wall in both directions and make their way through the monastery.We continued up to the Cliff Hotel. There were more border police at the foot of the hill. More and more people are climbing the wall in the that area — carefully making their way around the broken barbed wire.There was one army jeep at the Cliff Hotel that objected to our parking there, but they left and left us alone. Our guest, when she saw the wall and what it was doing to the people behind the hotel broke down into inconsolable tears. She was saying, “What have we become? What has happened to us?”We went through the monastery and down the long hill, through the concrete barriers and past the new checkpoint to meet with our new regular driver, Sammy. Sammy told us that things are quiet at the Container and most of the BPs there are fine “except for one team of “nudniks” who make trouble every time they come”. We asked when their shift was and he said it varies.When we arrived at the Container, all was very quiet. Not one pedestrian and no cars! When cars did arrive, they passed through very quickly with very few being checked. (these were mostly private vehicles). At no point were there more than 5 cars in either direction, and no one waited more than a few minutes.

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      A checkpoint on Jerusalem’s municipal boundary.

      It sits on the separation fence south of Abu Dis. The checkpoint is manned by Border Police soldiers and private security companies and operates 24 hours a day. Palestinians are forbidden to go through, other than residents of the Qunbar and Surhi families who live west of the separation fence, some of whom have blue ID cards and others have entry permits to Jerusalem. Other Palestinians, including residents of East Jerusalem, are not permitted through the checkpoint. Visitors to the families are permitted through the checkpoint only after their hosts obtain permits for them at the checkpoint.
       

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