We are tired of photographing the waiting room. That is the face of the IDF at Gush Etzion. One of the hoHe wrote to the GSS in Hebrew and English but this had not helped himttest days here and no cold water.

A man asked for help. He had been a building contractor for 30 years  and made a very good living. He had among other enterprises  worked on the bridges of the intervity train. Suddenly one day he found out that he was prevented and had no idea why.  After two years he suddenly  remembered that he  had been working for two men who lived one above the other in a religious area. The brother of one of the men phoned him and complained that he was giving all his attention to the one and neglecting his brother.

  The weather at the time had been very bad and he had not been able to work for two weeks. The brother demanded that he meet them with the contract. At that time they owed him 12000 shekel. They gave him only 10000 and said that he was fired.  The brother demanded that he give them his ID and told him that he would see to it that he would not be able to work in Israel.

 A week later he went to register his son who is an engineer in the Israeli union and found to his astonishment that he was prevented. At the time he did not know of Sylvia. He wrote to the GSS in Hebrew and English but this had not helped him. Only after two years did he remember the threat that the man had made against him.  He wrote to the GSS in Hebrew and English.

 He was told to come to the DCO on a day when  they would be dealing with many people   who were prevented but when he arrived there was no one else there but himself. No one came  to speak to him.  He still has no idea of what he was accused of. We had noticed that he and  his wife came out through a side entrance. She evidently has a pacemaker and cannot go through the turnstile. Soldiers had also come to his house and turned it upside down. We advised him to write to Amira Hass.

A woman had come for a magnetic card. She had worked at a retirement home near  Haifa and had written a letter to a friend of hers….who is no longer a friend….telling her of  about the irregularities  which she had noticed. Her friend gave it to the director and in May of this year they fired her on various pretexts. She had been told to come at 11 o’clock for a magnetic card  and at 12.20 was still waiting.

Another case of a man with a pacemaker who had been there since eight  o’clock  and gone into the offices at 10 was  still  waiting to leave through the side entrance. at 12.00

The second checkpoint near Rami Levi in the Etzion junction  for Palestinians only was in action when we went back.