Afternoon
On arrival we saw a group of border police with about 20 detainees who were waiting for their IDs to be checked. The wall has yesterday and today been extended past the “hotel” so that now the university (an extension of Al Quds) is completely sealed off and students and staff and others can no longer go through its gate. Now the only place to go through is the one “obstacle path” which is apparently due to be closed too.We walked to the top to check what effect this is having – people with Jerusalem IDs can pass to the schools but there are now 26 schoolchildren who cannot go to school because of the Kafkaesque situation of IDs.We spoke with Terry Bullata and her husband and others living there. She has had to close her school because of these problems. We watched as the border police building contractor lowered yet another huge cement block so that the wall is now hermetically sealed. We returned to the gas station. Channel One TV’s Moki Hadar and the journalist Nihad Abu Dis arrived to make a piece for this Friday evening’s newsbroadcast.