Bethlehem (300)
9:00 to 11:00
There are many people today, perhaps because of the Prophet's birthday, which falls on Sunday?
Most of the time there are 3 open windows, sometimes 4, many children, bouncing around, happy and gay.
The passage is relatively quick, without a long wait. Of course, they may have waited for quite some time on the Palestinian side...
An elderly woman is detained at a window after she gave papers that do not match the requirements. She immediately shouts that she is a tourist from Jordan and that she left her passport with a visa at a hotel in Jerusalem. The soldier - a young woman officer - probably doesn’t understand Arabic and insists on not listening to the woman but addresses only the soldier at the window. This soldier doesn’t even remember if those papers are the tourist’s or other woman’s, who as well was not allowed to pass. They go through a few moments of a dialogue of the deaf. Eventually the commander arrives and at once everything falls into place.
The long lines begin to decrease only towards 11:00