Beit Iba, Monday, 15.5.2005, PMObservers: Michal A. Ziona S, (reporting)Natanya translating. Summary. Little traffic at the checkpoint and the behavior of the soldiers is decent and efficient. The taxi drivers have little work. The segregation is expressed by a ban on public vehicles to exit Nablus. It seems that the main pressure has passed to a temporary checkpoint on road 60 opposite Qedumim. 11.00 Amira Hass wrote us a letter about a young man from Jenin. His father had turned to her. He had been arrested 10 days ago in his home and sent to prison at Salem, freed 10 days later but since then each time he passes Beit Iba he is handcuffed, beaten and detained for a number of hours and then sent home. We phoned the young man at 11.00 and it turned out that at one of the checkpoints after leaving Jenin he was sent back there and told that the closure was because of Yom HaNakba. Later soldiers told us that there is a segregation on Jenin and we gave the details of the man to the morning shift. 16.00 No checkpoint at the crossroads of Shave Shomron,16.10 The entrance to the checkpoint is crowded with taxis who have no work. There is no vehicle at the entrance to Nablus and little exiting. No detainees and it is so also at the pedestrian crossing. The commander of the checkpoint Yonatan Moyal is polite and efficient and tries to ease the difficulties of the checkpoint. He opens a special line for those from 35-40 and for women and so there is a swift passage. He says that using detention as a punishment as other commanders do is not his way at all. He knows that he is dealing with human beings and does not feel that unnecessary humiliation has any purpose but the opposite. Encourages terror. The military police on the other hand shout and gloat at those leaving Nablus and also explain to me that each one has his way of doing things. On our way the Palestinians whom we meet say to us in English, ” If you want to help the Palestinians go to Qedumim.” 16.40 On road 60 opposite Qedumim about 2 kilometers from the checkpoint of Jit an enormously long line of about 50 cars. We phone Gil and he promises to check what is happening and to see what can be done but we could not stay long enough to know if this was so.