Bethlehem vicinity, Thursday, 30.6.06, AM Observers: Aviva W., Rama Y. (reporting)06:45, Bethlehem CP: People complain about the long wait. A big group — whole families, many teen-agers – is on its way to a day on the beach at the Sea of Galilee in the Israeli town of Tiberis. They are all Christians and this is a holiday. They have to wait quite a long time till all the members of the group go through the CP, but all are happy and excited.A man just out of the CP hands me a visiting card. I look for my reading glasses while explaining to him that otherwise I cannot read the card. He says, in English: “I don’t speak English” and is gone. When I finally find my glasses I see that this is a visiting card of the Parents Circle, Israeli Palestinian Bereaved Families for Peace.07:50, Ezyon DCL: Very few people, about twenty, are waiting at the square in front of the DCL. The 32 age limitation is still in force. There are two men, one 30 year-old, the other younger, hoping to have the magnetic card, since there are so very few people in line, and this regulation had seemingly been put into effect in order to improve things for Palestinians and shorten the lines. No way, of course. Regulations are regulations. The 30 year-old is about to be married. The two men don’t go away. They stay and wait; maybe something will happen, maybe they’ll get their cards. It took quite a while till the first applicants came out of the DCL. The first, at around 08:45, came for a permit to go to St John hospital in Jerusalem. For some unclear reason he was told to come back at 13:00. Will he go home and come back? No, transport is costly, 30 NIS, so he’ll stay and wait there till 13:00. By the time we left, at around 09:45, two men got their magnetic cards.