Reihan, Shaked, Sat 24.10.09, Morning

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Observers: 
Sarit A, Rachel H. (reporting)
Oct-24-2009
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Morning
 

07:00 Reihan Checkpoint
This time we experienced a particularly noisy shift. On the upper parking lot Transits are waiting.

07:07 – the first come out of the terminal.
"Yalla, back off! back off! You don’t want to enter today? What’s this! shut the door! shut the door I told you!"

07:15 – a group of young women enters, and exits 20 minutes later. The shouting continues.

Two in blue shirts, and a man in uniform stand facing the entrance and shouting. After a ferw minutes they return to the terminal, but the shouting doesn’t stop.
All the people "marked" come out of the terminal in 20-25 minutes.

07:30 – we move to stand at the exit from the terminal. There we hear the shouts of the woman in the window: "Bring the kushan, how are you going to cross without documentation?" (The kushan, somebody explains, is "the right to take a child through without an ID, and it says the child is yours."
People come out with puzzled faces, offended: "Shouting like that?"they ask us. Another window opens. Will stay open until 08:00.
The pressure drops, but there still are relatively more crossing in both directions today.

08:05 – nine cars enter the examination hut (after having already passed document checks). After five minutes, two more enter.

08:20 – four more cars.

08:45 – the gatesinfo-icon close.
One of the drivers opens the gate and four cars go on their way. We don’t wait for the other cars. Meanwhile, cars are clustered at the entrance.

09:05 – we leave,

09:15 Shaked Checkpoint
Thin traffic as usual at this hour.
A woman soldier sits on the railing. A driver comes out of the examination hut to his waiting car outside the fence. He gets in, the car is checked, and he continues on our route.

09:30 – we leave.