As there is still a time difference of one hour between Israeli and Palestinian time, there were mainly labourers trying to get through when we arrived. A soldier was standing in the old opening which has been almost completely blocked by a laid-down concrete block , positioned so as to cause extreme difficulty in crossing over for any but great athletes. The Palestinians had put two stones on which to balance while hauling themselves over the wall to the “Jerusalem side”. He told the people coming from the other side of the wall to walk up on their side to the opening next to the college( in which some kind of a passageway was cleared adjacent to the college’s gate). Two soldiers waited for them there, and allowed only blue id’s to go through. Later on, they moved lower down the road and it turned out that people with green/orange id + permits for work in Israel which they received only a couple of weeks ago (and which were supposed to be good for three months) were not allowed in. Safadi claimed, that there was a”double closure” because of the Iraq war and because of security warnings ( about which the soldier checking the permits knew nothing!!).Back at the old wall entrance, two new soldiers behaved very decently to the flood of women, children and middle-aged-to-old men who flooded that opening and scrambled over the wall, the concrete blocks and the two stones, some barely making it. They let most of them go past without too much checking.At around 8. 15 two border police jeeps arrived, recalled the two soldiers and put one very spiteful, inconsiderate and foul mouthed one in their stead. Their commander, said that no one should be allowed through. People should go all the way up the hill to a gate that is being constructed there (on the hill opposite the one on which the college is located. As soon as the jeeps were gone, the soldier let some people go, though with much more checking.