Huwarra , Beita, Beit Furik Saturday 25.3.06 AMObservers: Vivi Z., Hanna B, Nurit L, Hava H, Nina M (reporting).Guests: Rina L., Barbara R.08:20 – 10:30Summary: Huwarra checkpoint: Humiliation of young men by body searching done by a woman soldier, including intimate parts of a body.Beita-road blocks and destroyed entrance to a vegetables bazaar –leftovers from the last week Israeli army incursion.Beit Furik- quick passage of scarce pedestrians.Huwarra – People enter Nablus unchecked. There are different lines for people going south. “Humanitarian” line for women, children and disabled moves quickly. We could not see the line of older men. The line of young men was well visible. Young men had to present a content of their bags to a detailed inspection. The inspection was particularly detailed with teenagers and very young men. For rather long time a woman soldier executed body search of those men. She did it very accurately including pushing a metal detector between men’s legs including genitals area. Our protests addressed to a checkpoint commander were not responded –the commander said that he cannot interfere in a checking procedure. On the other occasion the commander responded sensibly when two men who accompanied their psychotic brother to Bethlehem to the hospital for mentally disturbed patients tried to bypass waiting lines. In spite of the fact that brothers were caught going South through a passage for people going towards Nablus (unchecked), the commander enabled them to pass quickly through the “humanitarian” line.Some men were detained and forced to wait in a detention pen for additional checking at Intelligence (Shabak) through a phone call. There are longer and shorter lists of “suspects” and when ID’s number appear on one of those lists the owners of those IDse are detained. On the “longer” list are “potentially dangerous” people. We saw one example of those. A young man with two amputated hands was detained after checking his ID. The man lost his hands as a result of playing with an ammunition which Israeli army left at a playground in Nablus 10 years ago. Now he is on this “potentially dangerous Palestinians” list, because may be he wants to take revenge. There was another case of a 15-years old boy who was born in Gaza strip, but lives in Nablus for 10 years already. Of course , as we know, it is impossible to change Gaza’s address to the West Bank address and the boy appeared on one of the “black” lists in an army computer. He was released after his mother came to pick him. Detained men were usually released after 20 min to 1 hr.Buses going South were checked extremely slowly. It took 1 and a half hour to check one bus, or may be longer, we do not know how long the bus was checked before we arrived.Beita . We went to this village through Awarta by a terrible dirt road. Beita was invaded by the Israeli army last week. It was under curfew for 3 and after short brake for another 5 days. The curfew was lifted on Thursday. During those days the whole village was completely disconnected by huge mounds of earth placed on the road leading to Huwarra and the only road connection was through the narrow and bumpy dirt road through which we arrived. Local people told us that 15 men were arrested during the incursion and their families do not know where they are-the Red Cross has no information about those people. We went to see the vegetables bazaar-signs of the destruction of the entrance to bazaar were very visible-there were piles of rubble pushed by an army bulldozer in order to block this entrance.Beit Furik . A passage through the checkpoint was quick. Tens of yellow cubs waiting for passengers pointed to a huge unemployment and waste of people’s time. Instead of sitting at home drivers prefer to sit in their empty cubs for hours and to imagine that they still work.