Jerusalem → to Ramallah

Straight-line distance from Jerusalem, measured on the coordinates listed under each stop. Not road distance. Not travel time.

1. 0 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Jerusalem

   القدس

   CityStanding

   The start. Every figure in the distance column is measured from this point, so the column is a measure of separation from Jerusalem as much as of progress toward Ramallah.

   Read the record31.7827, 35.2212 · src/data/geo/places.json (Nominatim, cross-checked against Wikidata Q1218)

2. 1.7 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Sheikh Jarrah

   الشيخ جرّاح

   NeighbourhoodStanding

   The first neighbourhood north of the Old City on this road, and one of the East Jerusalem neighbourhoods where Israeli settler organisations have taken control of Palestinian homes through the Israeli courts. OCHA's 2016 survey counted 180 Palestinian households across East Jerusalem with eviction cases filed against them, the majority brought by settler organisations, putting 818 people — 372 of them children — at risk of displacement.

   Where the record is thin: The 180-household figure is OCHA's East Jerusalem-wide count, not a Sheikh Jarrah count. OCHA names Sheikh Jarrah, with the Old City and Silwan, as one of the places where settler expropriation has gone furthest, and states that the total number of cases since 1967 is unknown.

   Read the record31.7946, 35.2319 · Wikidata Q1026801

3. 3.7 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Shu'fat

   شعفاط

   TownStanding

   ARIJ places Shu'fat 3.89 km north of Jerusalem, on ground settled long before the road. Its refugee camp lies about 1.5 km east of the town and is not a stop on this route — but it is the other place, with Kufr 'Aqab, that the barrier cut off from the city while leaving it inside the Israeli-declared municipal boundary.

   Read the record31.8153, 35.2300 · Wikidata Q2915231

4. 5.3 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Beit Hanina

   بيت حنينا

   TownStanding

   ARIJ records 2,927 dunums — a third of the town — confiscated for four Israeli settlements that now surround it on all sides, and further land taken for bypass roads 1, 60, 437, 404 and 20. Road 60, the road you are on, is one of them.

   Read the record31.8306, 35.2161 · Wikidata Q2919614

5. 7.9 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   ar-Ram

   الرام

   TownStanding

   8.1 km north of Jerusalem by ARIJ's measure, and the point where the road stops being a road through a city. The barrier runs 6 km across ar-Ram and Dahiyat al-Bareed, isolating about 1,202 dunums. ARIJ records it built directly over the town's sewage lines, leaving the main carrier pipe on the far side, so a blockage can only be fixed by asking the Jerusalem Municipality. Some of ar-Ram's families came here from Qaluniyya, a village on the Jaffa road emptied in 1948.

   Read the record31.8534, 35.2334 · Wikidata Q775087

6. 9.0 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Qalandiya

   قلنديا

   VillageStanding

   The village that gave its name to the airport, the camp and the checkpoint. PCBS counted 1,063 people here in 2007. Jerusalem's international airport was built on its land by the British in the 1920s, carried Jordanian civil traffic to Beirut and Cairo until 1967, and has been closed to civilian traffic since 2000.

   Where the record is thin: Jerusalem Story dates the closure two ways on its own site: a photo caption gives 2000 for the end of civilian traffic, its accompanying essay gives 2001 for the permanent shutdown. Both are recorded here rather than one being chosen.

   Read the record31.8631, 35.2075 · Wikidata Q94800

7. 9.1 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Qalandiya camp

   مخيّم قلنديا

   Refugee campStanding

   Established in 1949 for people displaced the year before. ARIJ lists the camp's families as 'Allar, Lafta, Burj, 'Artoof, Khirbet al Looz, 'Ashu' and Sar'a — and five of those names ('Allar, Lifta, Artuf, Khirbat al-Lawz and Sar'a) are villages of the Jerusalem subdistrict emptied in 1948. One of them, Lifta, is a stop on the Jaffa–Jerusalem road elsewhere on this site. PCBS counted 7,962 residents in 2007.

   Where the record is thin: ARIJ records these as family names, not as places of origin. That five of the seven are also the names of Jerusalem-subdistrict villages depopulated in 1948 is a match this page points out; it is not a statement by ARIJ, and it is not evidence about any particular family.

   No record in this archive yet — listed, not linked.31.8647, 35.2292 · Wikidata Q12241567

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   Qalandiya checkpoint

   CheckpointClosure

   The largest checkpoint around Jerusalem, controlling all entry to the city from the north, and one of only three that Palestinians holding Palestinian Authority ID may use at all. More than 25,000 people cross it daily; Jerusalem Story records that it handles a third of daily Palestinian movement in and out of the West Bank. It began in late 2000 as boulders in the road, became concrete and fencing in 2001, was embedded in the wall from 2004, and was fitted with biometric machines in 2019. PA ID holders must cross on foot: their cars stay behind.

   Where the record is thin: This stop carries no coordinate. No source we could reach this session publishes one for the checkpoint itself, and the archive will not invent a point for the most consequential object on this road. Read its position from the stops either side of it.

   No record in this archive yet — listed, not linked.Not pinned — no source we could reach publishes a coordinate.

9. 10.4 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

   Kufr 'Aqab

   كفر عقب

   NeighbourhoodBehind the wall

   Inside the Israeli-declared municipal boundary of Jerusalem, and on the far side of the wall from it. Residents keep their permanent-resident status and pay the arnona; OCHA records that the infrastructure and services are 'significantly degraded or lacking entirely', that Israeli police seldom enter, that the Palestinian Authority is barred from operating here under the Oslo accords, and that Israeli ambulances do not come — Palestinian ambulances hand patients over at the checkpoint. Ir Amim, cited by OCHA, found four of the neighbourhood's twenty-five kilometres of road paved and in reasonable condition.

   Where the record is thin: OCHA gives the population of all the localities behind the barrier as roughly 160,000 in 2016 and says plainly that the ratio of Jerusalem residents to West Bank ID holders among them is unknown. ARIJ, using Israeli statistics, put Kufr 'Aqab alone at 14,315 in 2010. The two figures count different things and neither is a current count.

   Read the record31.8758, 35.2197 · Wikidata Q2918647

10. 13.6 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

    al-Bireh

    البيرة

    CityStanding

    You are out of the Jerusalem governorate and into Ramallah and al-Bireh. ARIJ records 1,126 dunums of the city — 5.5 per cent — confiscated for the Israeli settlements of Psagot and Beit El.

    Where the record is thin: ARIJ places al-Bireh 1.55 km east of Ramallah; the two cities are continuous. That is why the last two figures in the distance column are effectively the same distance, and why al-Bireh's is the larger of the two even though you reach it first.

    Read the record31.9051, 35.2150 · Wikidata Q311326

11. 12.8 kilometres from Jerusalem in a straight line

    Ramallah

    رام الله

    CityStanding

    The end of the road: seat of the Palestinian Authority, and the city Palestinians in the northern West Bank go to for what Jerusalem used to provide. ARIJ records that since 2000 the people of ar-Ram and its neighbours, cut off from Jerusalem, have come here for education, work and health care instead.

    Read the record31.8969, 35.2017 · src/data/geo/places.json (Wikidata Q158119)