Etzion DCL

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Place: 
Observers: 
Shlomit Steinitz, Natanya Ginsburg
Dec-6-2021
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Morning

In spite of the sun, it was bitterly cold in the waiting room and the wind swept in.

As soon as we arrived, the car door was pulled opened by a woman to whom Shlomit has once given clothes, no greeting ,  asking if we had clothes. It was not pleasant, when we said we had nothing, she slammed the door and walked off. Sometimes these meetings are very unpleasant.

At various times there were people waiting go in, including once when there was actually a soldier looking at them and when we called him, he simply walked off without opening. Another expression of contempt and harassment. But at least almost on all such occasions when we sent an SMS to Asaf, the revolving gate was open after a very short wait. But even then for some reason, the first time that we have seen this, they were let in one by one with a long wait between each person. The Palestinians waited but looked at us expectantly and we delivered the goods

On the other hand there was also the man who complained bitterly that they had been waiting half an hour and I grinned at him and said, “You walked in with me five minutes” ago and he had the grace to smile shamefacedly

A woman of 61 had great difficulty getting through the revolving door but managed it. She told us that they had come to the checkpoint of Walaja and been turned back. But instead of turning them back and letting them go they had then been carted off to Atarot and then she found that she was police prevented until next year. When we were giving her advice she said to me excitedly, “Are you Sylvia” and I had to decline the honour.

 

She told us that her sister of 65 has been working for a Jewish policeman and his family for over 50 years. She was worried because she had a married son of 40 but proudly of her daughter who is in the Palestinian police. We heard all this because we gave her a lift back into Bethlehem.

 

One of the lords of the land arrived with his children evidently not knowing where he had to go for whatever he needed……he waited patiently with the Palestinians.

A man arrived who did not need our help but told us that he had a nargileh factory both in Bethlehem and in France and when we expressed surprise said that Germany is dafke the first city in the usage of nargilot. He had come to get permission to fly from Ben Gurion and said he did not have a problem.