Qalandiya, 18.1.2006, Wednesday AMWatchers: Victoria and Bob Little (guests) Nava E. (reporting)Ar-Ram7:10 It is quiet and there are no detainees. Suddenly there are shouts of: “Stop at the side.” A furious driver jumped out of his car and started shouting “What have I done…what have I not paid?” It transpired that a policeman standing with a woman from the income tax were identifying “confiscated” cars and loading them on to a haulage truck.A phone call to Benny, the checkpoint commander, did not help and when I said that it was against the law for the checkpoint to be used by the income tax and that he as the commander should see that the humiliation of the Palestinians should be kept to a minimum. He answered that “they were acting according to the law and there was nothing he could do about it.” In desperation I shouted that maybe then they should also check the Palestinians’ temperatures as they might infect them with flu.Another taxi driver told us that his brother, aged 17, had been arrested near Beit Hanina the previous year. The policemen had not wanted to see his ID but had dragged him down into the wadi to punish him. They cut the “Star of David” on his hand and a “Swastika” on his face and he said that next time he would bring him for us to see.Qalandiya 8.10 The cars cross swiftly and an ambulance managed to make its way through the cars in less than five minutes. At the back there were puddles and clothes full of mud and rain. Bob, who photographed Victoria, as she was checked at the crossing into Jerusalem, was taken to checking room where the soldiers looked at all his pictures and after a few broken words in Hebrew he was allowed to go free.