Huwara Monday 25.4.05 AMObservers: Annelien K., Orly P., Tal H. (reporting)Guest: Haya A.9:00Tapuach Zaatra Junction – few vehicles waiting in line from west to east, bus male passengers waiting outside to be checked.On the road out of Nablus – 19 vehicles waiting, of which 4 are buses.Huwara village shops are open, traffic normal. No checkpoint at the Yizhar Huwara Junction.Huwara CP: rather sparse traffic (typical of this time of day), normal structure of soldiers' shift and 3 Military Police unit – 2 girls and a fellow – who put in their fair share of stale jokes and shrillness without which the locals wouldn't remember who's boss… CP commander M. is civil and extraordinarily humane in his attitude.Detainees: a student on his way to an exam in Ramallah. but he's from Balata refugee camp and detained. It seems that although he's "alright" (I eavesdropped on the soldiers…) the GSS wants him. And within one hour soldiers in a jeep came to pick him up. Without handcuffing and blindfolding him, granted. We tried to inquire with M. but to no avail. We assumed that if he's "alright" and still wanted by the GSS, we must have witnessed what has so often been described by other shifts as the GSS' way to recruit or try to recruit "workers". But this is speculation.A young MP should be mentioned – for exemplary negativity – who persistently asks middle aged respectable and stoic looking Palestinian men: "Well, what's up? Everything fine? Got a job? Girls?" Next to him, the MP girl soldier – who does not miss a moment of private conversation with him in the shrillest of vulgar voices, screeching so that the distant Palestinians behind the iron bars can't really tell whether she's off on her own tangent or screaming at them.The CP commander to whom I turned about this, directed me to another MP girl who's supposed to be in charge of the MP soldiers. She listened cordially, nearly shrugged off my plaint by claiming that "we're supposed to respect any person and suspect them at the same time" but to my repeated argument that such behavior is neither a show of respect nor suspicion but plain and simple contempt and humiliation, she promised to look into it.A short visit to Beit Furiq yielded zero traffic and bored soldiers, so we headed back to Huwara, where the press had increased, but the atmosphere stayed more or less the same.