Bethlehem, EtzionSunday, April 29 Observers: Sylvia P, Ofra B, Chana A (reporting) and guest,7:00 Bethlehem CP: The going was smooth this morning. By the time we got there, there were hardly any people left to cross. We met the Ecumenicals who told us the same. We stood around talking to them.8:15 Etzion DCL: Very few people waiting for the special permits. In a minute, Sylvia was surrounded by a crowd of people asking for the results of their requests and advice in general. We were approached by an elderly woman with an eye infection. She was referred by her Bethlehem doctor to the El Mukassed Hospital in Jerusalem and didn’t get a permit. She was obviously very upset. At the window she had been told to go to one of the hospitals in Hebron. We called her doctor and he agreed to see her again (even though this was Sunday!) and decide which hospital in Hebron to send her to. She was very grateful to us, not at all unwilling to go to Hebron, but, her doctor told us, had insisted on Jerusalem when he saw her.The DCO’s building is getting on. We asked one of the workers when it would open, he said in two days! Obviously this is nonsense. Sylvia, who asked someone inside, was told in a month. In the meantime, people from this area can go to the El Zayyam DCL to get magnetic cards.