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326. DEL MURO DE BANKSI EN BELEN AL DE LAS LAMENTACIONES EN JERUSALEN.

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Distance
16.48 mi
Elevation gain
1,847 ft
Technical difficulty
Easy
Elevation loss
1,903 ft
Max elevation
2,889 ft
TrailRank 
57
Min elevation
2,242 ft
Trail type
One Way
Time
4 hours 49 minutes
Coordinates
2837
Uploaded
January 6, 2020
Recorded
January 2020
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near Khallat Ḩamāmah, West Bank (فلسطین)

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Most of this route is done by public transport, bus and taxi. The walks take place in Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
We may be in the presence of the most conflictive place in the history of mankind. For more than 4,000 years there has hardly been a time when there has not been a piece of land in dispute, and blood has not flowed to the seas through these deserts. Tribe against tribe, religion against religion, country against country. All against all. But there it continues, like a pressure cooker about to explode, from which nobody wants to withdraw. Ever busting, and everything changes ... to stay the same.
For more than 700 km. The Israeli government has built a wall in the West Bank, isolating Jewish settlements from the rest of the Palestinian territory. Near Bethlehem the wall becomes especially visible. We started the route in the Aida Refugee Camp. Here everything seems of a permanent provisionality. Badly built houses next to ruins, and tiny shops. Young and not so much, killing the hours in the street. And the wall. On this Palestinian side the graffiti decorates it continuously. The calls to peace join the assault rifles, and the dead lists. This is the Banksi territory. The environment chosen by the English graffiti artist to give visibility to the conflict. The taxi has left us at the entrance of the field. Although there is no entrance door, visitors are not well seen, and the cameras better keep them. The eyes of the people with whom we cross oscillate between indifference and the hostility contained. The proliferating satellite dishes relieve the fence.
The taxi rolls through crowded streets, approaching and moving away from the wall. Now he stops in front of the first graffiti: a dove of peace, with a bulletproof vest and a target on his chest. They are followed by a girl slapping an Israeli soldier, another girl destroying a piece of wall with a toy hammer. We stop at the Walled Off, the hotel with "the worst views in the world." Facing the same wall, Banksi opened it in 2017, when the 50th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration was celebrated, creating a Palestinian home for the Jews. With the appearance of a decadent English club, its walls are decorated by Banksi, and at the door a uniformed goalie with a hat, and a chimpanzee doll welcome us.
We said goodbye to the taxi, in the square of the Church of the Nativity. There Christians from all over the world visit the temple built on the place that was the manger. We enter through the Humiliation door, and must crouch as a sign of respect. Long lines hope to have a fleeting vision of the place where tradition places the birth of Jesus Christ. In front is the mosque of Omar, the street is full of thousand shops, where everything is bought and sold. We are in Palestinian territory.
Bus 485 leaves us in Jerusalem, near the Jaffa gate. Along the way we have passed a check. Strongly armed soldiers get on board and check the passage. None have an Arab appearance: we can continue.
Jerusalem, the center of various religions. City many times destroyed, and always raised again. Walking through its streets it seems that the new conquerors are tourists. They go in large groups, follow guides who speak in all languages. Cassocks, Jewish hats, long skirts, scarves, nun habits. He has not escaped this tourist plague that converts urban centers into open-air museums, with souvenir shops.
But if we park these thoughts, we see ancient stones, churches and devotion. Our road crosses the four neighborhoods (Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Armenian) into which the city is divided. Finally we arrive at the wailing wall. It is one of those iconic places that we have seen repeatedly, and do not disappoint. Even if it's just that: a wall, and many people stuck to it. We cross a control, and to get close we must cover ourselves with the kipá, a small hat. Inside, separated men and women, pray in their most sacred symbol. In the year 70 the Romans destroy the temple, of which only one of its walls remains. According to Jewish tradition, the wall cannot be rebuilt until the arrival of the Messiah. For 1,900 years the Jewish diaspora has dreamed of praying on this 15 meter high wall. Despite the recollection of some, it is not strange to see songs and dances, which are ignored by those who introduce a piece of paper with their desires among the cracks.
And this is the end point of our pilgrimage to a place as sacred as tormented. And if there is a religious center in the world, it is here.

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Muro de las Lamentaciones

It is located in a closed enclosure controlled by several surveillance points. In the vicinity you can also visit the underground of the wall

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Entrada campo Aida

Entrance to the refugee camp. Graffiti and graffiti, calling for rebellion, and remembering the fallen.

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Iglesia de la Natividad

The Basilica of the Nativity is one of the oldest Christian temples in use. It was built on the cave, better known as the portal of Bethlehem, where it is traditionally believed that Jesus of Nazareth was born. The first building of this temple dates from the fourth century after Christ, by order of the Roman emperor Constantine I. It is a religious building shared by the Greek Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Catholic Church with minor rights for the Syrian and Coptic Orthodox .

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Bus a Jerusalem

Parada del bus 485 a Jerusalem.

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Hotel banksi http://walledoffhotel.com/

More information at http://walledoffhotel.com/ In March 2019, Banksy opened his Walled Off hotel, described by himself as 'the hotel with the worst views in the world', as it is located just in front of the wall that separates Israel from the Palestinian territories, in Bethlehem. The Walled Off hotel, a pun from the glamorous Waldorf Astoria Hotels. It has 10 rooms located just 4 meters from the wall and only receives 25 minutes of sunlight a day.

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Plaza del pesebre

Center of the old town of Belen, and axis between the Nativity and the Mosque of Omar. Each Christmas a manger and a Christmas tree are installed.

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Puerta de Jaffa

Una delas puertas de acceso al recinto amurallado de Jerusalem.

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