Anata, Ar-Ram, Qalandiya, Thursday, 27.10.2005, AMObservers: Ruth E., Aviva W., Rama Y. (reporting)Anata Seven women were detained; they had tried to get into Jerusalem without permits. According to them, they had been detained for over an hour. They were released and sent back within minutes after our arrival. The cars’ line was long and nervous as ever.Ar-Ram Many children on their way to school. Otherwise, almost no action. The ID details of all pedestrians were written down.Qalandiya Halfway to Qalandiya CP, we got stuck for about fifty minutes in a traffic jam. Only on arrival to the improvised concrete block round-about we realized that the road to Atarot was completely blocked, and the only way west was by making a U-turn, and then driving back south, on the other side of the wall. Long trucks couldn’t make the turn and kept getting stuck, causing even more havoc. So, we were going back south, and then – surprise: a very chic parking lot, all new, right beside the western side of the wall. At the CP itself things were as usual – the usual dirt, the usual stench, heavy noisy tools working nonstop, a lot of dust. Otherwise, checking was quite efficient. A man approached us with the usual question: do we happen to know what was going on and what was in store once the terminal was completed. We didn’t. Palestinians feel, said the man, as if they were sheep being led to be slaughtered. He added that at Yom Kippur there were in the afternoon huge lines of people going back home to break the Ramadan fast and the soldiers didn’t make any effort to ease things up, according to him, because of MW observers’ absence. On leaving the CP, we saw security men trying to chase away vendors. We asked them whether they had the authority to do that and they ignored us rudely. A captain who stood near by said that no, they had no authority, but probably, works were going to be executed right where the vendors were placed… Maybe.