Aanin, Shaked, Rihan, Thursday, August 10, 2006, AMObserving and reporting: Ana NS, Raya Z08:00 – 10:4508:00 Aanin Already at 07:30, while we were on our way, AY called to ask why we weren’t there as he was waiting for us with documents. The checkpoint apparently opened at 06:00 and closed at 07:30, before we got there. According to him, everything was in order, everyone crossed without problems. As we passed by we entered to observe. In the entryway stood a tractor and a truck: somebody had come to clean the agricultural refuse that had been thrown in a grove of trees – as reported two months ago.08:15 Shaked The checkpoint was already closed. Two men were sitting by the gate, one from the lone house, the other from Nazlat Ziad. The gate had opened on time, few people passed, everything was okay.08:45 Rihan We arrived at the upper parking lot where vans and taxis were waiting as usual. They told us that the checkpoint opened early, but had now been closed for quite a while: the soldiers were eating breakfast. The sleeve was empty. Some 20 people were waiting at the terminal gate. The terminal was deserted, apart from a bored soldier sitting on a chair. At 09:00 they began to pass people, and the first through told us that in addition to the people waiting at the gate, there was an unknown number who were compelled to wait inside the terminal until the meal break was over – about an hour.Time needed to pass through the terminal from entry to exit – about 10 minutes.In conversation with the people waiting, someone from Jenin told us that on the road there were checkpoints, not permanent, at Arabeh (near Mevo Dotan) and at Mansura. He also said that there had been a “targeted” elimination of two wanted men in Jenin the day before.Vehicle checkpoint: five vehicles waiting on the road. In the parking lot six vans and trucks with eggs, agricultural produce and cigarettes. The wait was a long one, the inspections slow.A young man asked for our assistance: he had a pass into Israel to visit his sick sister at Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem. They were sending him to cross at Jalama in the north, which made the distance to Jerusalem much greater. After negotiation and phone calls, in the end he was allowed through.We left at 10:45.On the way we sought information about an additional agricultural gate for the villages of Romana and Taibe, which are to the northeast of Um al-Fahm. Someone said that they have a lot of agricultural land beyond the fence. The gate is apparently open twice a week on regular days, and the access path seems to be from Salem village, though we did not succeed in finding out exactly where.Someone also phoned us and asked that the gate at Aanin should be opened for him to return home because he didn’t feel well. We asked the District Coordination Office on the phone, and after a while they reported back that the gate had been opened for him.