Towards the humanitarian gate

The humanitarian gate is a gate inside the check-point usually used by women, older people or people that are sick, in wheel chairs or generally considered in need of not going through the regular entrance.

This morning this extra entrance was created for people to pass through into the compound where the actual check-point is. This old man is being escorted so that he doesn't have to wait in line. He is not yet at the humanitarian gate and was taken there by members of the red crescent in a wheel chair. 

Friday is a special day, especially during Ramadan as this allows people from the West bank who have obtained so-called prayer permits to pray at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.