Ar-Ram, Qalandiya 21.02.05 p.m.Observers: Chava B, Noa E, Tova S (reporting)Ar-Ram: At the entry to Ar-Ram, opposite the taxi stand and before the checkpoint itself, a male and female soldier were standing with their weapons drawn as they checked the i.d.'s of passengers on buses and minibuses. A young girl was taken off one of the buses -- a school girl who didn't have her i.d. She was taken to a small room on the side of the checkpoint for a check. After long deliberations she was set free. A large number of cars and pedestrians. A lot of detainees. A woman and a man. They waited a long time to fill out the forms that detainees are required to sign. The commander B mocked all the reasons that the detainees gave him as reasons for trying to cross without permits. He was unwilling to speed up the process. The blue police were parked at the checkpoint and checked the documents of every car that was passing into Ar-Ram and leaving from there. That procedure led to long lines in both directions. At one point, the soldier at the checkpoint asked to stop sending detainees because she had too much work. The checking of the buses stopped that moment. An ambulance with flashing lights waited in the line of vehicles entering Jerusalem. In the line were 4 cars. The soldier who was checking was indifferent to the presence of the ambulance and continued lazily checking documents.The ambulance was from the Red Crescent and wanted to get to Muhassid hospital. Inside the ambulance was a 9 year old girl with a diagnosis of encephalitis. Her mother sat and cried. The ambulance was taken aside and they began checking documents and were angry at the ambulance driver who was not in contact with Dahlia Bassa to get the proper permits. An Israeli ambulance was not waiting for the girl at Ar-Ram. The soldier who was dealing with the ambulance made a number of telephone calls which took about 15 minutes. We called to B to intervene and instead of doing that, we got a lecture about how the ambulance driver should have behaved in such a situation. We started to make telephone calls. There was no one who could help in Dahlia Bassa's office. We called the situation room and a soldier by the name of A took the details about the ambulance and about me and promised to call back.The soldier and B said that the mother and the driver should put the child in a taxi (the family didn't have money to hire an Israeli ambulance) with the infusion. We tried with all our might to prevent this, but we failed. The child, with the infusion, with no medical accompaniment was put in a taxi, and when she sat in the cab, she started to vomit. After the girl set off in the taxi, I got a call from A with permission for the ambulance to enter. What a mess up.QalandiyaThe road to Qalandiya was very difficult. We were warmly welcomed at the checkpoint by Z from the DCO. He said that it was absolutely correct that there should be no need for permits for people of all ages and from every place crossing the checkpoint. The inspection was only of belongings (the Palestinians with whom we spoke said this was indeed the situation). Regarding vehicles, the situation remained as it was. People with blue i.d.'s are able to cross to the area of Jerusalem north of the Qalandiya checkpoint. The rapid building taking place in the quarry is a bad omen about the continued building of the wall.