arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Aujourd’hui je suis en colere ….

Parce qu’aujourd’ hui je devais d’abord aller à un village (où les forces israeliennes ont detruit une quarantaine de tombes) qui s’est avéré inaccessible alors j’ai changé ma route pour Nablus.

Parce qu’a Nablus j’ai été rejetée aux deux checkpoints;

Parce qu’au deuxieme checkpoint ils m’ont dit de retouner au premier…

Parce que les soldats plaisantaient et balayent les gens d’ un revers de la main, et avec quelquefois des injures ;

Parce que sur mon retour a Ramallah avec un taxi collective nous avons dû passé six checkpoints!

Parce qu’à coté de moi à l’arrière il y avait deux enfants en bas age qui suffocaient;

Le plus inquiétant étant leur absence de sons, ils etaient amorphes, comme morts;

Parce que j’ai vu ses colons avec des mitraillettes a coté d’un checkpoint,

Parce que les voitures israeliennes aux plaques jaunes  nous depassaient en trombe sur la file de gauche,

Parce que j’ai perdu une journée de travail….

Pour moi ce n’est qu’un jour, mais pour beaucoup de Palestiniens ce sont leur quotidien;

Combien de temps vont-ils supporter cela?

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Today i am so angry.

Because today first I wanted to go to a village where the Israeli forces bulldozed around 40 graves but there were just too many checkpoints to go there… so I changed my destination to try to go to Nablus.

Because at Nablus I was repelled at two checkpoints;

Because at the second checkpoint they told me to go back to the first one;

Because the soldiers were joking and repelling people just with a gesture from their hands and sometimes insults;

Because on my way back to Ramallah with service we had to go through six checkpoints within 40 kms!

Because with me at the back of the car where two kids that were suffocating because of the heat while we were waiting at checkpoints;

What was most worrying is that they did not make any sound, they were like dead and without reaction;

Because I have seen some settlers with rifles near some checkpoints;

Because the Israeli cars with yellow plates were passing us so fast on the left lane;

Because I lost a day of work….

Because, while for me this is only one day, this represents the daily reality of Palestinians…

How long are they going to put up with it?