Prayers through the checkpoints

关卡间的祈祷

The Documentary Podcast

2025-12-19

26 分钟
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Imagine being able to see your place of worship, but not be able to reach it. For many Palestinian Muslims in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, stricter Israeli security measures, rising tensions with settlers, and movement restrictions introduced after the 7 October attacks, have made access to mosques increasingly challenging. Reporting from Hebron and East Jerusalem, Emily Wither explores how these pressures are reshaping the spiritual lives of worshippers living at the heart of one of the world’s most contested religious landscapes.
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  • We are going to the Abraham Mosque to pray the Friday prayer.

  • And we have a lot of restriction here, Israeli restriction to reach the Abraham Mosque.

  • And you can see the mosque from your house.

  • How many checkpoints have you had to go through just to meet me here?

  • Three checkpoints between my house and the Ibrahimi Mosque.

  • How many meters do you live from the mosque?

  • Just 100, 100 meters.

  • How long would it take for you to travel about 100 meters?

  • Maybe one minute and maybe two hours.

  • It depends on the checkpoint and the soldier and the mind of the soldier in the checkpoints.

  • So it can take you two hours sometimes to go a hundred meters.

  • Really, it takes more than if the mind of the soldier in the checkpoint is not good.