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Dec-18-2002
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Four soldiers at the checkpoint. Accurate behaviour. One hour car line waiting. Most of the time Palestinians passed without waiting. Green/orange ID's passed only with permission. Three vans were stopped, they tried to pass via the VIP line.First: An ambulance with a bleeding little boy. Soldiers checked the ambulance and then the passengers. It took five minutes and the ambulance including the passengers passed.Second: An elderly Palestinian couple had to go to the hospital. The soldiers didn't allow them to pass because they had no permission. A high officer (three Falafel) forced the soldiers to let them pass. The soldiers got very frustrated and started shouting and acting aggressively against the other passengers.Three: Just after the elderly couple came another lady that had to go to her doctor. She didn't have any permission or certificate and the soldiers didn't let her go. She said that every day she passes freely, just today nothing helped. At Sunny 2000 we didn't see soldiers, but people told us that there were two jeeps. We met some workers without permission that were afraid to pass via Sunny 2000, because they said that soldiers usually shooting there.Qalandya: Tora Bora was a real traffic mess. At the checkpoint were soldiers from "Shimshon" checking the pedestrians. They act in an appropriate way. The Palestinians passed quickly. People without permission were sent back.The weather was freezing and raining.Very heavy traffic from Neveh Ya'acov intersection to E-Ram checkpoint.