Bethlehem Tuesday afternoon 4.4.06 Observers:Yael I ( reporting) Snait G.15.00-19.00There were BP s checking at the entrance to the tunnels-road ; we saw a few detainees. We could not park so we went on.Two army vehicles stood at the exit of that road. Just as we were passing by three soldiers went beyond the road-probably to “hunt down” people trying to circumvent the checkpoint.There were no cars being checked at the actual tunnels-road checkpoint. At Ein Arov there was a Hummer next to the pillbox and two soldiers with ready guns were leaning against it, but they did not detain anyone. Another Hummer stood at the second exit of the refugee camp. Cars were checked relatively fast at the entrance square of Gush Etzion. The soldiers there at the present time are tank-battalion with black berets. Beit Omar:We went to Abu Nissim twice- because it turned out that one of Haya’s”clients” got the wrong driving license.The Ezyon DCL is functioning only partially, and Eyal says that it is going to fully operate soon. The new construction created a narrow path to the service windows, with two stiles that form a separate cell, and another one at the exit. Instead of calling aloud to the soldiers, as formerly, the soldier on top now has cameras and loudspeakers to talk to those waiting. The principal” innovation” is a wall which separates the shed from the service windows. Thus we shall not be able to see anything of what goes on inside. One has a keen sense of” The Big Brother watching you”; But there are new metal chairs.At Al Hader there is the usual disorder. Around 15.00 there were more cars than around 18.00 on our way back.At checkpoint 300 there were very few people passing through. But there was much going on at the shed next to the old checkpoint and around it, with people without permits and the drivers who took them in their cars. Drivers with their cars parked there waiting,, while a GSS( shabak) investigator sat inside a room in the shed. The commander explained that they were gathering cars which got caught in some parts of Jerusalem (presumably in the southern part). According to the commander it was up to the investigator to decide what to do with the drivers. We were not allowed to talk with the detainees, and we did not try too hard, so as to harm them further.