Morning

There was an awfully long line of vehicles headed north. It took 50 minutes to get through. Going north on foot was quick and we passed with the others. Before we passed through the checkpoint, we met the same teacher couple we met last week. They get through this checkpoint w/o a problem, but are not let through at the more southern E-Ram one. The Rosary Sisters School where they teach is just beyond that checkpoint. We gave them the name of a lawyer she knows and we hope they will get in touch and can get something done. Three teachers were going through the checkpoint and only two were allowed through. The third one, a 28-year old woman, was refused. The women have to go through the checkpoint every day to get to their school and they are routinely refused passage at the southern roadblock of E-Ram, but today the younger one was refused. She went back and her friends went on to the next roadblock where they will be refused. All of them had a valid permit. We imagine there is a warning about a woman terrorinst under 30 years of age.The question is: why is there an order not to let the teachers through at the E-Ram roadblock? The school is just beyond the checkpoint, the teachers are Christian and go through the northern checkpoint without a hitch. This is a daily bother to them and if they are not willing to risk their lives, they don't go through. At other times, they try to avoid the checkpoint, but the women told us there had been shooting two days ago in the area of the checkpoint and they were dead scared. We should try to do something about this. It couldn't be in anyone's interest to stop education at a Catholic school and alienate the intelligentsia. The teacher, by the way, pointed out to us that the cleaning lady at the school, with a regular permit gets through, while they, with a teacher's tasrich, don't.