Qalandiya
The face of the cancer patients and others suffering from different serious conditions making their way home to Gaza does not disclose whether their extended families include someone who belongs to Hamas, nor is it written on the mask attached to their mouth at the hospital before their release. But those who either confirm or deny the patients arrival for repeat treatments know it all. They read material in the dark, or invent family ties and relations and facing the news that no more exit permits from the Gaza Strip on a humanitarian basis will be issued anyone whose extended family includes a Hamas member, they are probably doomed.
News a few days ago also included the speech made by General Poli Mordechai who told the Gazans that the Jewish-Israeli genius was bound to win.
Look at the children’s faces, General Poli Mordechai. Jewish-Israeli Genius??!
(Something about this genius can be read here: http://acheinu.co.il/?CategoryID=256&ArticleID=417
Two ambulances stood waiting, delayed, on both sides of the checkpoints. The delay resulted from a negligible case of negligence on the part of Occupation bureaucracy.
But that which is negligible in the eyes of the checkpoint operators was not at all negligible in the eyes of the patient sent to Muqassad Hospital in East Jerusalem for surgery in his urinary system nor in the eyes of the medical staff.
True, nothing was wrong with the permits, nor with the coordination procedures, otherwise the ambulance would not have gotten underway. What did go wrong was the communication between those sitting there in the Israeli DCO offices at Beit El and here, the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint. So Tony whose ambulance was carrying the patient made phone calls, connected here and there and opened up the knot. Then, as things were straightened out, the back-to-back could be completed.
Further on, a day earlier, a Jerusalem municipality inspectors unit escorted by police raided the vendors active between the Qalandiya refugee camp and the checkpoint, and fined each of them for 500 shekels.
Why? Because the area is within the Jerusalem municipal jurisdiction and they, the vendors who do not even live in Jerusalem, do not hold a vendor’s permit. That’s why.
For this one needs no genius. Only bad will.