The settler road is progressing very rapidly. We think of that when we travel the Jerusalem roads with bumps and bashes. Soon every settler will  have his own private lane.

There was quite a bit of action at DCO. We had never seen so many cars parked …the line reached all the way down to the turning to the DCO. We do not know the reason for this.  It must have been chaotic at the windows which of course we cannot see because one man who came out told us that there were about 50 people inside which was easy to believe as one could hear loud voices which we have never noticed before. Also, the waiting room was empty of people.

One person looked at the map that was spread out on the floor, it might have been a good goal. Another man ran in and tore another strip from another map, which was also lying on the floor. It’s a good thing that no soldier saw them, because they would certainly have been arrested for damaging state property. The question arises as to whether there is any point in these maps and notices of confiscation of property, since this happens every day in the occupied territories without prior notice.

Shlomit has sent Hagit Ofran  of Shalom Achsav photographs of Palestinian properties doomed to confiscation and areas of olive  groves which are to be destroyed so as not to endanger the settlements in their vicinity and  to protect the settlers when they are carrying out their attacks on elderly Palestinians and sending them to hospital. Some of these confiscations are also for the laying down of pipelines which probably are not to facilitate lives of the Palestinians but only of the settlers. We  have not seen that the needs of the Palestinians for water is part of this plan.

One man told us he was having digestive problems and was being treated at Hebron hospital. thanks to the Ben Gvir fast diet for Palestinian prisoners in jails.

There are no more appointments for Palestinians….the machine which is supposed to spew out the time of appointment has not worked in months. They are told to come in at 9am and when we arrive, at about 1300, they are still there.  And often after we leave they are still there or There is also no one at the window and the Palestinians have found their own way of working the turnstile out. But you must be thin to use it. This man unfortunately could not for obvious reasons.

When the voices reached a crescendo these three soldiers shown below came bursting in violently, shouting at everyone still in the hall to sit down. They went through and there was dead silence. We ask them to help the rather over plump man to enter and I hope they did. If you are a Palestinian it is advisory to keep a trim figure. Not being facetious but bitter to say that in the Palestinian scene of today when so many people have no means of making a livelihood that is not difficult.