Qalandiya

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Tamar Fleishman; Translator: Tal H.
Jul-17-2016
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Afternoon

The Ramadan month has left its marks at the checkpoint.
Damages are not that quickly repaired.

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The metal barriers that created a winding track – making movement even more difficult for the disabled – are now not very promptly removed:

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A grandmother, grandfather and their three granddaughters arriving at the inspection post were subjected to a cross-investigation: who is who, who is this, and also:

“Why are the girls not registered in your ID?”
“Because I am their grandfather. I brought their mother’s ID. That’s where they are registered.”
“So why didn’t their mother come?”
“Why didn’t you bring their birth certificates?”

Time and time and time again.
Until the man, who had so far kept his cool and answered as required, lost it and said: “My dear, we are Israelis!”

And this made – and always makes – the difference, for even the right “to lose it” belongs only to the privileged, not to the unprivileged.

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So the woman-soldier lost it too. The “it” she lost was her self-confidence. In order to save face, she was resorted to call up a friend who explained to her about the rights of the privileged.

On the wall, a picture of Anwar Falakh Salaime

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I wanted to write that Anwar, ‘eliminated’ in A-Ram by soldiers’ bullets on July 13, 2016, was the last shaheed (martyr), but then came word of the murder in A-Ram of Majdi Sidki Al Tabah, a 12-year old child, on Muly 20, 2016.

The army’s reaction to the killing of this child: “Riot ensued on the spot and Border Police combatants fired concussion and teargas grenades. The Border Police reiterates that no live fire was used.” http://www.iba.org.il/bet/?entity=1171883&type=1

The army’s explanation of Anwar’s killing is that he was shot while on his way to vehicular terrorist attack.

The Palestinians say the fellow was a resident of East Jerusalem who, two months ago, married and on the evening of his death was driving to a bakery in A-Ram.

Why did the soldiers fire six bullets at the car? –No one has an answer.

Apparently he was at the wrong place at the very wrong time.