Qalandiya and Ar-Ram, June 19, AMReporters: Maya B., Anat T., Tamar L. (reporting)Qalandiya7.00: We are happy to report that we didn’t encounter any conflicts between the soldiers and the peddlers this time. However, a number of vendors still were affected by the events of the past days. Some told us they had been beaten, a peanut vendor said that a soldier had struck another vendor’s head. He said he had pointed out the soldier to Mor and Iris yesterday. We told them about our demonstration Wednesday afternoon.Eimad, the representative of the handicapped children in Qalandiya and the village Akab, gave us a list of additional children who are due to make use of the organized transportation to the specialized schools in and around Jerusalem. Anat is in contact with the person at Jerusalem Municipality who is responsible for the transportation, and with the colonel’s office – in principal these municipal transportation vehicles will be allowed to collect the children from the villages. The arrangement will become official as soon as all the children are listed. When this will be the case, we will let you know.After we met some people who were not allowed to pass, we talked to Dani, the DCO representative. He says that citizens of Tul-Qarem, Qalquiliya and Jenin have not been allowed to pass during the last two weeks, because of warnings. He thinks that this problem will end today or tomorrow. A strange story.Two women who had been sent away earlier, returned to the checkpoint and requested permission to pass. One of them, a female doctor at the Augusta Victoria Hospital, has a permit, and she hadn’t encountered any problems during the last two weeks. We went to talk to her. A soldier who disliked us from the moment we arrived (he called us a bone in his throat) ordered us to clear away and forbade us to talk to the women. Since we were standing at our usual place, outside the gate of the checkpoint, we answered that we were allowed to stand there and we wanted to find out what happened to the women. The soldier (who refused to identify himself) talked to us aggressively and really tried to create a conflict (“I am the one who rules here!”). When we stood further away, he continued to shout: “You won’t call me stupid.” We didn’t know why he should say that, since neither of us had said anything like it. Absolutely nothing. Although we firmly denied having called him names, he continued to shout and even to threaten: “I can arrest you, wait and see if you talk like this again.” Another soldier came to his assistance and both shouted to us that we should clear away. Just when we wanted to phone Tsidki of the DCO, he arrived in person: a polite officer who talks to us at length. We asked him to take care of the nervous soldier, for who knows how the day will end if he already starts it by making a row with MachsomWatch women. The good news is that the two women finally were allowed to pass.Ar-Ram8.40: Few pedestrians. The passing is easy and fast. A TV crew (channel 9 – Russian) is interviewing passers-by about easier conditions for matriculating high school students. What a pity that the many Hebrew-speaking channels don’t spend time looking into the conditions at the checkpoints. They could do a great deal of good. During the time we spent at the checkpoint, three women without permit were caught. Another woman, who had a permit, had a fearful coughing fit, “because the soldiers were smoking”. The checkpoint commander politely offered her water.