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Qalandya: Today we saved Palestinian transit driver from death ?, imprisonment?, detention of many hours?, severe beating? or his car confiscation? (one of this for sure). But we were there and he went free. We just arrived to Qalandyawhen we saw this transit driver arguing with a soldier and many Palestinians around. We run there and understood that transit driver was told to go out of his transit because he allowed his passengers to go out of the car too near the checkpoint area. The driver refused to go out of the car and bad mouthed the soldier. At the request of the ID he said he has not any because it was taken away and not returned at one of the checkpoints. The soldier (young kind who cannot stand that unarmed Palestinian will refuse to obey his orders) started to beat the Palestinian man (40-50- years old who was ready to die but not to loose his proud) and at the same time the soldier said: the Palestinian beat me. We acted like in a complementary way: one of us tried to calm down both man by saying “do not shoot-do not curse“, the other pooled the soldiers gun from the back when he pointed it towards Palestinian ready to shoot (the soldier was on the verge to kill the Palestinian) .This was probably too courageous act, but it confused the soldier a lot because he turned back to see who does it and saw Israeli woman face, the third one shouted to other soldiers who arrived that the Palestinian did nothing wrong. An officer in charge saw a big crowd of Palestinians, us, moved the soldier away, listen to the Palestinian and told him to go ahead.E-Ram - a lot of fuss around drivers who use an emergency line and bypass the long line of waiting cars. One driver who started to argue with soldiers was fined for 900 IS the blue police!