Bethlehem and surroundings,Wednesday pm 20.7.2005 Observers: Daniella G., Tamar B., Natanya G.(reporting)A quiet and uneventful watch.15.00 at DCO Ezyon: The fan is working but unless one sits under it does nothelp much. We arrived to find about 6 men waiting for answers but no one onsentry duty and one soldier in the window reading a newspaper. A phone callto Moti works wonders although he is not in the area and within half an hourexcept for one man all have come out with the necessary permits. The sentryhowever seems to take pleasure in locking people in the turnstile until wecall him.At El Khadr everything is as usual and very busy.4.15 At Bet Jalla CP a soldier….volunteer? [IDF reservist voluntarily posted as reinforcement to a CP staff] reservist? almost certainly asettler….comes out and demands to know who we are and insists on seeingour ids which we refuse to show him as he is not of the police….after awhile he gives up insisting that we are in HIS checkpoint and goes back tochecking cars which pass with no problems.The road to Walleja is also quiet.After being dropped off by Tammie and Daniella an man from Abu Tor who isdirecting the taxis near CP 300…which was also quiet with no detainees,called me and asked to know who I was. I sat with him under his canopy andexplained to him. He then looked at me and asked my age and after a momentof thought said “Lady with all due respect to you and what you are doing….don’tyou think it would be more fitting for a lady of your advanced age to besitting at home in this heat with the fan on and something cold to drink.” I then went past Tantur to my car where there were about 10 men but thank goodness not detainees though they said they had been waiting an hour and a half for a bus.