Anabta, Monday, 6.6.05, PMObservers: Yona E, Ofra B, Daphna S, Ziona S (reporting)Anabta: 17: 00 A cab carrying a patient with a hospital appointment in Ramallah. He must wait. The claim that the Identity Cards are being checked is beginning to seem ridiculous. They are being checked for more than 4 hours already, including the father with the two-year-old child. The soldiers claim the reason is that all the checkpoints are being checked. But it seems more like a deliberate delay. The atmosphere is becoming tenser and the anger all around is immense. The Palestinian say: “this pressure is going to bring on the next explosion”. We can’t help but agree. 17:10 Suddenly the soldiers cock their weapon, and the wireless sounds that there is a terrorist somewhere along the line of people. The traffic halts, the soldiers proceed along the line with their guns ready to shoot. 17:25 They return with a blindfolded boy. He is handcuffed and put inside the jeep. 18:30 So far two people received their Identity Cards back. The rest are waiting. Meaningless answers from the DCO and the Army Spokesperson. 19:00 We left in despair. Apart from speeding up the passage of two ambulances (and this too after delays and arguments) we were completely helpless facing hundreds of tormented and bitter people. Beit Iba:17:00 Turning in the direction of Beit Iba, near Deir Sharaf , we saw lines of cars and Rolling checkpoints in every direction. In Beit Iba there were hardly any people going threw the checkpoint, so we returned to Deir Sharaf. We approached the roadblock that was restricting movement from Jit junction to Tulkarm. 2 Police jeep block a portion of the road. There’s a Wild West atmosphere. One of the jeep drives away with big commotion, sirens beeping and back doors open wide. It seems like someone saw something suspicious in the fields; the jeep is running its sirens with great noise but returns after a few minutes. Four soldiers from the Border Police walk around with Identity Cards that belong to drivers and passengers. One is guarding a young man sitting crouched by the side of the road. When the soldiers see us approaching, he removes his handcuffs and offer him water. A few policemen in blue sit inside a jeep checking IDs very slowly and in waves. They refuse the acknowledge us or answer our questions. From time to time they stop checking and let the cars pass freely. A soldier shouts a cab driver to stop, another soldier a few meters away shout to the same cab driver “go on already!” 17:45 The Border Police gives in and start talking to us “go home and cook for your children”, “why is this man detained”? “A gut feeling. They will have something on him for sure. Go to my unit and see how many rewards I’ve received for catching terrorists. We are here to keep you safe and you come here to nag us”. 18:00 The soldiers are beginning to leave the junction. One of the roadblock on the Beit Iba road is shifted about 200 meter in the direction of Beit Iba, but that too is removed after half an hour.