Beit Iba, Thursday, 6.10.2005, AMObservers: Estie S. and Ruthie W. (reporting)8.00 Beit Iba. A slender line of people passing in both directions but this wakes up during the morning. A young man is brought to the checkpoint and the soldier says that he and another man coming from Sera had tried to pass the checkpoint. One of them is from Sarra and the other from a refugee camp. Even though there papers show no particular problem the attempt to pass the checkpoint brings the young man from the refugee camp to the enclosure. There he is checked bodily. The captain says he is a “potential terrorist” even though this was maybe just an attempt to save time. In any case he has called in the police. At 10.00 when we left he said that the police were on the way. I passed this information on to the next shift. The cars are checked quickly and efficiently. Those in the public transport are sometimes checked inside the vehicle and sometimes asked to step down. The soldiers seem very alert but are quiet and efficient. Routine but each time my feelings are heavier and heavier.