Can you see this woman, on the left corner of the picture, sitting behind the carrousel? She is sitting because she wants to keep her place in the top of the line.
The line. It begins in a small hut near Tul Karem. It is hard to see this, so early in the morning, it is too dark, but the interweaving of the fences is pure art. It is so high and it is built in a way that creates a convoluted path, like a snake, the aim is to slow down the Palestinian workers on their way to the checking inside Ertach CP. In the dark, I can see the curves when the people inside are moving. I saw the fences also in the afternoon when I came here to see them on their way back home.
The line is crowed. I learnt this from few men who climbed on the fences, having no place left. I will attach more picture of the line tomorrow. In the end of the line, a yellow gate, another way to slow down the workers. The narrow path between the gate and the carrousel is extremely packed. The carousel is locked every few seconds, so the number of workers between it and the metal detector will be supervised. I could see their hands inside the carousel. When the carousel starts moving the people, locked inside, run out. “Everywhere in the world people work for a living, I work to die” said to me a man in is fifties from Tul Karem (it sounds better in Hebrew).
The women work as strawberry pickers in Israel.
Ertach CP, South of Tul Karem, Friday 21th of may, 2010.
Hebrew post – here
