Qalandiya, 19.02.05 a.m.Tami B reportingThis is not a report of a shift. I went to Qalandiya with someone and I believe that the events of the morning should be entered into the achives of machsomwatch.We arrived at about 11:30 and a short time afterwards, the checkpoint was totally closed from both directions. A reserve officer who was responsible said that a suspicious object was found north of the wall (northwest, near the camp) and they were awaiting someone to diffuse it. For two hours, hundreds of people and vehicles were delayed, including babies, old people, sick ones, and hoards of school children who returned from school at 1:00 p.m. The soldiers were terribly tense, shouting and pushing. The reason for closing the checkpoint and pushing the people back was security considerations, but when they pushed them back north of the checkpoint, they actually exposed them to greater danger. What reason did they have to delay an old woman who was on the verge of fainting, or a baby of two weeks on their way south. Most of the time and energy of the soldiers was given over to an hysterical attempt to restore order and gain full control. Like the checkpoint itself, it had nothing to do with security. At some point, an order was received to open the checkpoint, and as expected, tens of people pushed forward. The soldiers reacted by stopping everything and shouting, and with the help of two jeeps screaming to everyone to go back. After another half hour of waiting, the checkpoint again was opened. There was enormous tension and it would have taken little for someone to push forward and for some soldier to fire in the air as happened more than once in the past. A representative of the DCO acquiesced to my request to allow a woman with a baby to pass and an officer allowed an old woman to pass as well at the beginning of this happening.