Etzion DCL: The eternal question - will there be a policeman today? And when will he arrive?

Hanna Barag asked us to wait for a man who had had an accident in which a settler had been involved. A child had been ridden over and the settler had fled the scene. We waited and thought that he had probably gone up to the police station by mistake and so it was. Hanna wanted him to meet with someone at the DCO who could help him. Eventually he came and at the same time two soldiers came out to the fence, one of whom was a Druze captain. For years we have been told that the policeman came on Tuesday and there had even been a notice to that effect. He was very aggressive and said that for as long as he could remember the policeman came on a Monday at about one o'clock and on a Wednesday. As we have never seen him before, we do not know how long he has been at Etzion. Why does the policeman come so late? Because he comes from the north and cannot arrive earlier. We hope that if ever there is a state of emergency, he will be able to get up earlier. We asked how the Palestinians are supposed to know this and he said..."They know." It has been published." Where? When? No reply. 

By the way, a report of this had appeared on facebook but nothing at all on the news. Had it been a Palestinian and a Jewish child....it would be on the news for at least a week. Hanna has written a report about this. And of course, the police are claiming it was just a traffic accident and not a terrorist attack. 

A man who has a wife and four children in Jerusalem wants permission to be able, not only to visit them, but also to spend the night. His wife is again pregnant and not well and there is also a child who is autistic. She really needs his help and because of ill health neither of the grandparents can help them. He asked us to speak to the soldiers and that we have no communication with them. Oh, where are the days when Nadav was at the DCO. Since then, the quality of the DCO representative has simply eroded and is non-existent.  

Earlier, on the way to the DCO, we saw a bunch of ultra-orthodox men and guessed that they said that there was a grave there. Hanna had also said that this was so. Going back, we were caught in a traffic jam and thought that maybe the ultra-orthodox men were demonstrating but as they were all over the digs, it is possible that people were slowing down to watch their antics.

Shortly after that, Shlomit stopped to wash her car near Ricardo's shop. There too we met two Palestinians who asked who we were and then asked for our help as they were both prevented.