Etzion DCL

A young man who spoke and read Hebrew told us that he had tried to pass checkpoing 300 with a scooter. He was met by four policemen and one demanded his ID. He was then told that he could not pass through the gate with the scooter. He said that by law he could go through and the policeman again demanded his ID. He would not allow him to video so the young man said to him that that was fine…that there are cameras at the checkpoints. Maybe he does not realise that the police will probably delete any such evidence. So he was pushed against the wall and told that he would receive a ticket as his helmet was not closed properly and because he was forbidden to bring the scooter into the checkpoint. He was also given a 500 shekel fine for not having a mask. The man refused to sign so the policeman brought a screwdriver and took the air out of the wheels and then told him that he could find his own way to get through the turnstile…which somehow he did. We gave him the number of LEAP and later he wrote and asked if he should take the lawyer they wanted to send him and was told to do so.

A man came at first claiming that he was a Catholic and wanted to go to Jerusalem. By the way A. said that he had had passed through about 1000 requests from the churches for Xmas. But then he said that he was a Muslim and wanted to take his children to see Jerusalem. It is so sad that he cannot take his children 3 kilometre to Israel. Israelis have no problems being taken by their parents anywhere in Israel or in the occupied territories. And we are told that there is no apartheid. The question also is that now that Israeli children are being vaccinated, if that will affect the children of the Palestinians.

Various people arrived and said that they had had the vaccinations and there was nothing on the computer to prove this. A. said that this was something that the Palestinian Authority had to deal with this and see that it was passed to the Israeli office.

A man is now “prevented”. He had sat for two years in jail. There are so many accusations against him, some of them obviously pulled out of the air. Throwing stones would be normal for such a short sentence (sic!) but he is also accused of manufacturing weapons and having possession of materials for making explosives with which to commit murder. Had that been the case he would not have seen the light of day for many years.