This Café still keeps its old details, and the reservoir in which the water kept after removed from the well is still present. Not only is this evidence of the Café’s foot, but also the old tile, which broken, and in a stone corner at the top of his door are a collection of old lanterns.
Before the Zionist siege that began in 1993, the Café was full of visitors from all over the West Bank, now our work is limited to customers only, residents of the surrounding area of the Old City or those who are able to get here from nearby neighborhoods.
Al-Aqsa Mosque also had a history with the coffee shop. At the opening of the Café, its owner brought water from a well in the mosque, which he used to prepare coffee and tea. Over time, the Café has its own interior, before shops and homes connected to water networks. The owner of the current Café, who pointed out that it begins work at nine o’clock in the morning closes the doors of the shop at 10 o’clock in the night except for the days of clashes between young Palestinians and the forces of the entity. Which many these days: “After the war of the Zionist entity on Gaza, the Zionists grew up on us, the police arrest young men, beat them and chase the children in the alleys, we also suffer
from the heavy taxes imposed by the occupation, I pay 16,000 shekels (4,300 dollars) a year, In addition to taxes, electricity and water, what is left?