Abu-Dis, Wadi-Nar [Sawahre]and environs Wednesday morning, 10 March 2004 Watchers: Rina H., Chana G., Netanya G., Rahel W. (reporting), and two guests from U.S. We first went up to the hotel. It appears that they have already used up all the concrete slabs for the Wall [Separation Barrier] at that point, so construction is at a halt. However, work continues apace on a road which leads by the new Moskowitz settlement. We met some documentary film makers from Italy who interviewed us about MachsomWatch and our impressions of the Wall.There was one Border Patrol jeep at the Pishpash Gate [roadside pedestrian passage], but people were moving through freely. Our driver, Ahmed, took us to see the new stretch of Wall going up behind the St. Vincent de Paul convent next to the Pishpash Gate. We then saw another site where yet another length of the Wall was going up, and then finally we got to Wadi-Nar. There was a huge line of vehicles in both directions. At first we thought that there was a closure in effect [restricting movement in the Territories, usually imposed due to a security alert], but it was just a matter of a lot of traffic. By the side of the checkpoint were four trucks laden with slabs for the barrier. Since they would not be able to move while cars were coming from the opposite direction, the BPs waved all the cars through as quickly as possible to clear the road for the transportation of the slabs for the wall. (Top priority!!!)The BPs were fine while we were there, although two of the Ecumenical observers [from an international organization for human rights] who were present when we arrived said that two of the women BPs were performing body searches on women coming through. While we were there, we saw only one detainee who had forgotten his ID. He had phoned his brother, who was bringing it to him.The watch shift itself was uneventful, but the growing despair of our driver Ahmed was apparent as he sees the walls of the prison getting closer and closer every day.