Monday, August 3, 2009

Lila (my friend from Siraj) has a cousin in Khalil (Hebron) who gets dialysis treatment for his kidney failure three times a week. He has a permit to go to Jerusalem. I filmed him going through the Bethlehem checkpoint which is a checkpoint you physically have to walk through, metal detectors, fingerprint scanning machines and everything. Once we are inside, a big brother intercom tells me to stop filming. A soldier walks over to me in a lot of menacing gear but I'm too mesmerized to be frightened. He makes me play him the video. Than he asks me to delete it. I pretend to push some buttons and tell him it's all done. He lets me go. The video is still in my camera. Totally lucked out.

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