1. Qalandiya checkpoint, 5:30AM. pic.twitter.com/nIyqHzyrTp
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
2. I imagine going through airport security every morning. If the airport was run by a foreign occupying military.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
3. It is so awful here. People stand in cages for hours, waiting. It is Ramadan, now, but they cannot rest.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
4. A man says something to his friend. I understand. He sees that I understand, says "hatha bi7chi 3rabi," this one speaks Arabic, "Come."
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
5. He tells me that he is from Bir Nabala, near Ramallah; works in Atarot, an industrial park in the settlements, on the other side of wall
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
6. "We work for them, and this is what they do to us," he says. He has pretty eyes, a big smile. He kisses the metal bar next to him.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
7. "We wake up at 3am to come here," his friend says. "Is it always this crowded?" I ask. "Today?" He says, "today is calm."
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
8. On the other side of the cage, Israeli soldiers and police, 18, 26, 31, dyed hair, tired eyes, too-powerful. pic.twitter.com/KTZfhX2KXM
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
9. This place is shameful.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
10. Another man calls me over. "ya'as!" He says, "kulo ya'as…" Everything is despair. He is bald and very tall.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
11. Barbed wire above, screens with Israeli flags on them in front. pic.twitter.com/3owqbp2l6m
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
12. A beeping sound. The turnstile has opened. The man reaches his hand through the bars to shake mine, move through the turnstile.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
13. But he is stopped. Only three people are let through. He sighs, looks at me, shakes his head. Shrugs. Taps the bar. Smiles.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
14. People rush through the turnstile at the Qalandiya checkpoint, this morning, like every single morning. pic.twitter.com/9qfa6X6JaV
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
15. Hanna Barag, an 80 year old Israeli volunteer with @machsomwatch tells us about the obscenity of this place.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
16. "There is nothing more evil here than the bureaucracy," says Hanna Barag of @machsomwatch.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
17. She tells us about the Shabak blacklist ppl are put on, barred from crossing. She also tell us of MachsomWatch's efforts to get ppl off.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
18. 70% success rate, she says, "and we aren't lawyers, just old women." Shows how arbitrary, meaningless and cruel the blacklist is.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
19. This place is astonishing, appalling, shocking. On the first time or the 50th. One should never not be shocked by this sort of cruelty.
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
20. The occupation is a staggeringly cruel and unjust system. It must be. Occupation cannot be done morally. pic.twitter.com/6BHT0wWP8v
— Mori Rothman-Zecher (@Moriel_RZ) June 7, 2016
The Leftern Wall 