It is one of the three Gates that the occupation allows to open during the Al Fajer and Al Eshaa prayers: Bab Hetta, Bab al-Nathir and Bab Salis.
Bab al-Nathir in the modern era
Bab al-Nader attended the first funeral of one of the martyrs of the third al-Aqsa massacre (Al-Aqsa Intifada) to pray on, in Al-Aqsa Mosque on 29/9/2000 AD,
the martyr (Osama Jeddah) / 20 year-old resident of the neighborhood of the African community outside it (the descendants of the African Mujahideen who came to liberate Jerusalem from the Crusaders, and lived near the Aqsa at this Gate).
The Gate also exposed to several attempts by the Zionist occupiers to close it after many clashes with the warm people aand Jerusalem in general.