 Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. For today's walk, I'm going to the East Jerusalem Arab-Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud. Ras al-Amoud intersects with or is adjacent to Abu Diz. Abu Diz is on the far side of the barrier where I'm walking at the moment is just on the outside of the old city here it's not the greatest footpath ever but it's really interesting right here so that's sort of where we're walking it's about a one-hour walk from the old city to get to it's actually a petrol station that's right up against the barrier so I just put that into Google I've done this already once. I have to point out I guess I feel I have a bit of responsibility to other people's security. East Jerusalem is largely speaking pretty hostile territory for Jews and Israelis. I know that's a generalization clearly not all parts. Anyone think you're doing this walk? Dude, you're doing it at your own risk and it would strongly advise against wearing anything visibly Jewish or visibly Israeli. Let's continue. I'm walking through the East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud. This is just past the Mount of Olives and I'm gonna walk out to where the separation barrier is built that divides between Ras al-Amoud and Abu Diz. What always interests me about East Jerusalem is that despite we're about 45 minutes in from the old city now so pretty deep in. You can still see the Israeli health fund Maccabi have their logo here in Arabic it's part of this that sign in Arabic there says Maccabi. So basically even though the distances are small here between one side of the wall and the other it's pretty significant because this place is all technically part of the Jerusalem municipality with the manifestations of Israeli sovereignty like the Israeli health funds but just on the other side of the wall here in Abu Diz it's already under civil control of the Palestinian Authority and therefore you see Palestinian police the health services and civil services would be provided by the PA etc so it's tiny tiny distance but it makes a big difference. Here we are at the end of the Ras al-Amoud neighborhood here in East Jerusalem just about 30-40 minutes walk beyond the old city walking eastward all the way and we're coming up to where the road meets the separation barrier that's it you can see it straight in front of me that big concrete structure and it's actually this is one of the most interesting places in the city to see it because on the other side you can actually see second story of that house just behind the barrier so you could literally throw a bag of potatoes out the window over the barrier from the rooftop of that house this is al- Ryan Bakery and there's a petrol station just before the barrier so kind of a strange place to fill up your car but it's not always this imposing and the barrier I've made this point before there are parts where it's just kind of a little fence but you can see the mosque here so this is all the end of Ras al-Amoud and which is just past what's called an Arabic Jabal Zaytun Mount of Olives and then on the other side this is Abu Diz and from there the West Bank so you can see that the barrier here is about probably I would guess five meters tall I mean it's definitely multiple times the heads and you can see here there is a graffiti on it in Arabic saying stop the occupation and this will continue along the road here presumably it's pretty well controlled you can see there's barbed wire up there too and it then kind of sneaks in here you can see that it just kind of stops and then probably becomes a fence so this is meandering all the way around East Jerusalem and there are checkpoints here that are basically allowing people to come in if they can but as I know from the meet-up I went to recently getting access from the Israeli army for Palestinians on the other side is not necessarily easy so this is about as far as I can go here I'm about 45 minutes outside of the old city of Jerusalem I'm in a place called Ras al- Amoud which is one of the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and this wall behind me the concrete barrier is dividing between Ras al- Amoud and Abu Diz on the other side of the barrier it's about five meters high and there is a petrol station just next to the separation barrier and on that side is the West Bank and the Palestinian town of Abu Diz