Ar-Ram, Qalandiya

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Oct-17-2002
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A-Ram: Balagan of heavy traffic of cars making U-Turn before theMachsom, Children getting off buses and then on buses, Much heaviertraffic than usual but everything flows than Harass is there bright andshining.Qalandia-south: the changes in the Machsom have already been reported.Again extremely heavy traffic.Qalandia North: Two lines, Older reservists, one older womanexceptionally rude and vulgar. Long line that moves quite fast. Nopassage without permits for non blue IDs. We stop a woman with asmall note which indicates there request for magnetic card. on the noteit says "a request for clemency CHANINA". Turns out that she is ateacher, everyday she pass with the teacher's card without any problemtoday he soldiers did not allow passage, They rudely refuse totalk with us, and we call the DCO and the spokesman whosay that they will look into it. In the meantime more teachers aregathered all of them with the same story that what was a daily routinehas been stopped to-day and the older reserve soldiers areunapproachable. It was only after we called the Moked (Center for the Protection of the Individual) a few minutes after 8 o'clock that there was hopeful response. Some students joined the group that grew to about 20 people. The soldiers got tense and kept asking us to move aside. It took the moked about 40 minutes to get the spokesman to talk to the soldiers. It was a sweet moment when thatice-cold arrogant man announced "It has been changed you can all pass".the teacher who did not despair passed. We talked with the Mokedthat this will not happen again. they were grateful and we could not butnotice the IT (has been changed) some super power!