CP300, El Khader, Bet Jalla, ETzion DCO
Bethlehem and sourroundings Wednesday 6/10/04,AMNora, B, Rachel, M, Hela, I, Valeria, S (reporting) Nicola (guest)6:25 checkpoint 300: Closure, no pedestrians, and a line of three cars that needed to returned.7:00: Beit Jalla: the soldiers opened the cp at 7:15, Pedestrians pass freely, cars are allowed to pass to Bet Jalla but not from Bet Jalla to Jerusalem.7:30: El Khader: No army or police7:40: Etzion: Closure, the soldiers give very unclear instructions, they say nobody can pass to Jerusalem except physicians, when we arrived a group of 5 physicians start shouting to the soliders we are physicans, patients are waiting for us”. The soldiers told us they didn’t have physicians’ ID,so we asked the doctors for their IDs and showed them to the soldiers and they let them go, and also suddendly they let all the students pass.8:15 ETzion D.C.O: 10 people waiting, fans and cooler are working. 2 windows open and also the police. They work till 10.On our way back we a saw a jeep at El Khader and a lot of army and police through Hebron Road i Jerusalem.
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The places in East Jerusalem which are visited routinely by MachsomWatch women are Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah. During the month of Ramadan, also the Old City and its environs are monitored.
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