Etzion DCO: Is your life boring?
The poor man who took a taxi so as to have a magnetic card made and found that he has to go to Tarkumia for it.
A couple arrived looking their son and also accompanied by another family member. They had been at a hospital the previous night with a relation who was having a serious operation. Imagine yourselves after such an evening arriving home to find that the army had been and arrested your eldest son who was looking after the other five children at home. They had no idea what he was supposed to have done….maybe stone throwing, maybe worse …and maybe nothing at all but just an attempt to frighten him into becoming a collaborator. The children were terrified…the oldest a 15 year old girl , the smallest a baby. For those of you who have daughters I wonder how you would feel if your 15 year old was along at home and suddenly the army burst in. When they came home the smaller children were still crying. One can only imagine what the parents felt coming from one emergency to another. The army left a note for the husband that he had to come in to be interrogated. We heard that the boy would be brought before a court the next day but could not find out if the parents would be able to attend.
Other than that it was a regular day with people being advised to contact Sylvia and her team. So often the story repeats itself that a man comes to the checkpoint through which he has been going for months and years and is suddenly turn back as having begun “prevented”.
If any of you complain of the dullness of life you should become a Palestinian for a few hours.