Ar-Ram, Qalandiya – Wednesday 31.05.06 PMObservers: Hanna T., Tami B., Daniela Y. (reporting), Translation: Netta S.14:45 Before Dahia junctionPoliceman and a BP soldier are randomly stopping cars. They are checking identity cards and licenses in front of computer.Ar-Ram junctionThere are many policemen, we don’t know why. In Jerusalem’s direction Dahia residents and U.N people are going through. The checkpoint commander: “We are trying to get them used to it” (to go through Qalandiya or not at all). The rocks barrier is still on the road in the circus junction, it trains the people to go through the neighborhood. Ibrahim’s motel is closed! Only for today? Maybe forever? In the vans area, there’s an old man, father of 10 children, from Beit Lakia, a van driver that earns 40-60 shekels per day. He is lying exhausted in the van; he hasn’t tasted a chicken’s taste for a long time. He asks the driver for a cigarette. A driver from Tulkarm hasn’t seen his family for 2 years but if he goes to see them he won’t be able to come back. In this area you can see new yellow vans, the business became established. The lane is longer. Those who go towards Ramalla aren’t being checked, it’s an easing before cruel worsening afterwards. Ar-Ram is connected to Ramalla.QalandiyaWe met a driver who told us that in two weeks Hizma will be closed and they will have to go only through Qalandiya. He passed his hand on his neck in a slaughter move. Our experience shows us that they now the truth better. Where have all the peddlers gone? How do they make a living? Qalandiya checkpoint, “the terminal” is completely empty but the parking lot is full. People leave their vehicles and continue south with a public vehicle, It’s less complicated. Someone says: we are in a big prison. A post modern building is being built in the east. We came back in bus no. 78 and we stopped at the Nusaiba housing complex. We walked to Ar-Ram checkpoint. Tami went back to Tel-Aviv through road 443. She reports: in the section that splits Beit Hanina and Beit Hanina Balad there’s a poles basis for a bricks wall. Before Bituniya from Dir-Nabala to Rifat they are building a wall, of the enclave?