Atarot Airport

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The Atarot Airport (also called Qalandia airport) operated until 2001, the city of Jerusalem. It is located north of town on the way to Ramallah and is part of annexed by Israel east of the city.

Prior to the erection of the Ben-Gurion Airport in Lod was the only of Palestine, built by the British Airport. Among the Jordanians from 1948 to 1967 he was the airport for East Jerusalem, with the acquisition by the Israelis, he became a purely domestic airport. The airport has operated until the second Intifada domestic flights to Eilat and Haifa. When strike on Tel Aviv airport, other aircraft were diverted here. With the beginning of the second intifada, he had to be closed because it is surrounded by Palestinian settlements. There was the fear that Israeli civilian aircraft could be shot at by these villages. In addition, the runway at the touch of stone-throwing.

To date, the airport is deserted and its future uncertain. The Palestinians claim the airport as the gateway to the world for the future of them claimed East Jerusalem. The airport is sometimes identified with two different ICAO codes, where LL is an airport in Israel and OJ for an airport in Jordan.

Just south of the airport extends the large industrial area Atarot. In the north of the Israeli security fence seals off the terrain conditions Ramallah. To the east is the large Palestinian refugee camp Qalandia.

• Airport in Israel
• Airport in Asia
• Building in Jerusalem