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Cliff Hotel, Jerusalem

Place: Cliff Hotel Jerusalem
Observers: Dvora G.,Dafna S.
May-25-2006
| Afternoon

Abu-Dis Thursday, 25.5.2006, PM (15:00-17:30Observers: Dvora G., Dafna S. (reporting)Visitors: Smadar and BoazJerusalem Day: All the way round the Old City, large numbers of of border-police.Abu-Dis – We tried but were not allowed to get to the Cliff Hotel. Each time the Hotel looks worse. Border police at the lower Pishpash – no crossings, and the works progress.Near the Monartery – Border policemen, sitting in the shade, allow entry and make clear there’s no way back. They permit a family to wait in the shade until someone arrives to take the older children to the other side, and the mother will be able to continue to hospital with the baby.Zeitim CP – The same mystery: total calm, no people, no traffic.The Container – Everything proceeds with truly irritating slowness. Extremely hot. The checkpoint commander explains that he’s under-staffed, and that is why people and traffic have to cross alternately at the carousel; that he also takes pains to conduct an orderly crossing; that they too are humanitarian… not just us…

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    • Cliff Hotel
      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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    • The places in East Jerusalem which are visited routinely by MachsomWatch women are Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah. During the month of Ramadan, also the Old City and its environs are monitored.

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