An Israeli border police officer checks identification cards of Palestinian women as they wait to cross the Qalandiya checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Ramallah September 12, 2008, on their way to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Muslims around the world abstain from eating, drinking and conducting sexual relations from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (WEST BANK)