Beit Iba, Monday, 13.2.2006, PMObservers: Yona A. (reporting)Guest: Dana R. (guest)15.20 A driver at Beit Iba says that there things are good but the problems are at Anabta. Many cars waiting to enter and exit Nablus. 10 buses are carefully checked. People crowd the carousels. A soldier appears and says that all the passengers are to give in their ids. No one can go through. Then another order. People can pass. About 20 sacks of coconuts are taken out of the baggage compartment of the bus and the soldiers deliberate among themselves what to do, The Palestinian breaks open two. The coconuts are put on the back of a donkey and so will reach Tulkarm.An order is received to find a young man with a definite id number. The captain asks the soldiers to let the cars through as quickly as possible.15.35Many cars and pedestrians. Another bus is checked but this time the passengers remain seated. The numbers are checked against a list and a young man ordered to alight. The soldier tells him to stand at the side while the bus goes on so as not to hold up the cars and after a few minutes the young man is freed.15.50 A young couple wish to enter Nablus but the woman from Ramalla has forgotten her id and they are not allowed in.On our way to the car a driver asks our help. On Tuesday they took his 27 year old son, the father of two and a taxi-driver, from his home in Beit Imrin and he has not returned. He was told that his son is at Huwwara. We take the details and say we will try to find out where he is and see that he is released. 16.30 We were glad that there was no checkpoint between Anabta and the Jit crossroads. At Jit we found that the rolling checkpoint had been moved southwards to the gas station. In the middle of the road was a halftrack and about 30 cars and a bus all empty on the side of the road. Crowds of people standing, some who had been checked, others who had been told to wait and others who had not been checked yet. We were shocked to see that the bus was the one that had been checked at Beit Iba. After 20 minutes soldiers tell people to get into the bus . The driver decides to wait for the young men and in the meantime another 3 from another bus join him. When all our released we also leave and find yet another checkpoint on the eastern side.