Afternoon

Qalandya South.The longest line of cars I have ever seen. Hafez, the taxi dispatcher, who had been beaten by a soldier because there was 'disorder', was adamant to file a complaint. So we went to search for the soldier who beat him, but we couldn't find him. We heard that 8 cars had been confiscated that day and they are somewhere in the airport but cannot be seen from our side. Qalandya North.We overheard a soldier telling another that there is an order that only medicine and food are allowed through, so a van carrying toilet paper is turned back. Also logs and toys were denied the right to pass. A Palestinian taxi arrived with a crippled man, who, with tremendous effort and help from passersby, climbed out of the taxi. His body was badly distorted and even with crutches he had difficulty moving. I shouted, 'Let him go in the taxi', 'No' answered the soldier 'We caught a cripple here who was 'wanted' for ten years' he explained, but they allowed us to help him to the car at the head of the line whose driver was willing to take him to E-Ram where he'll catch a taxi to Jerusalem.A 14 year old boy from Hebron with a birth certificate, who was on his way home,was not allowed through. He had been hanging around the checkpoint for around 4 hours, hoping for something. tried again, and was denied again. We tried the Moked, who were trying to help, but the child finally decided to bypass the checkpoint. A woman from Hizme, orange ID, suffered a severe tooth ache and had gone earlier to Ramallah for treatment, and was not allowed through when she came back. I called the emergency center of the civil administration to no avail; in the Moked they said she is allowed through (even according to the laws of the occupation) and are trying to help, however, the woman gave up before any help was rendered.Y, who also volunteers in the Moked, spoke a day later to the Moked who said the woman's case had been dealt with and had she approached the soldiers again, she might have been allowed through, as they had been ordered to let her through.