Habla

It’s the occupation routine, everything works like a swiss watch, but this is an occupation and isn’t Switzerland where everybody has the freedom to come and go as they wish.

16:45 Habla

The soldiers arrived and within a few minutes they opened all the gates. To enter Palestine there are already over 20 people waiting. They are passed on quickly as well as the few persons who arrive to pass from Habla to the plant nurseries zone – mainly night watchmen but also vehicles which transport equipment and plants for the nurseries.

A splendid Jaguar car driven by a young man arrives from the direction of the plant nurseries to pass to Palestine, behind it in the queue there is a cart with a donkey loaded with wood for burning. What an extremism in our modern world. But the cart too has a seat which has been removed from a car – so it too is advanced.

Everything is quiet and terribly institutionalized, the soldiers smile, the Palestinians smile, everybody acts according to his role.