Abu Dis, SawahreWed. 20.10.04 p.m.Observers: Julia W., Rina H., Chana G., Rahel W. (reporting)We went first to the pishpash. There was a major traffic jam with transits depositing children and adults rushing to get home. No border police, no checks in either direction.Cliff Hotel: A bulldozer was busy at work on the new road paralleling the wall and the fence that was built running alongside it. Still no sign of anyone living in the Moskovitz settlement. Some people still crossing via the hotel, but this will clearly come to an end soon.We headed for Sawahre via the Ma’ale Adumim road and saw that there was no checkpoint on the Al Ezariya Road so we went that way. We got there at about 3:30 and saw that many of the stores were already shut, and when we got to the Container, traffic was relatively sparse but moving very quickly. When we arrived, there was a van heading toward Bethlehem that was detained, together with its passengers (they said they were waiting 2 hours; the border police said they were waiting less than a half hour) and about 15 pedestrians were also waiting to get back their IDs. The BPs would not let us speak with them, but told us they too were waiting about 20 minutes. They said all the numbers had been called in to the Shabach and they were just waiting to hear from them. After another 20 minutes, we called Avi Biton’s number to inquire why there was such a delay in returning the IDs. The woman who answered said that she would look into it.About 10 minutes later, Sh., a border police officer with three felafels arrived on the scene and all the IDs were returned within 10 minutes. This is the second time that Sh. has arrived on the scene and got things moving. He is a singularly decent guy.On the way back, we noticed several areas along the road where makeshift road blocks had been set up, and there were blue police checking vehicles near the entrance to the Ma’ale Adumim Road. (They were not there an hour before).We realized that, considering this is Ramadan, we went out too late. Next week, we will set out no later than 2:15.