Beit Iba, 3.7.2006, Monday afternoonObservers: Yonah A. Ziona S. (reporting), Natanya translating15.37 A rolling checkpoint on road 57, round about the area leading up to Ramin.Beit IbaSummary. The usual occupational situation. No particular limitations, no long line but just by the existence of the checkpoint there is harassment of people and control over their lives.15.50 – At the car lane there is great pressure and confusion. As soon as we arrive the soldier at the checkpoint says that we are trouble makers. When we ask how he says “You are making reports all the time, I am trying to keep order and you confuse the order.” Yona cannot control herself and says “We want to get the checkpoints out of here.” He asks “Why move them?” She says “So that people can get on with their lives.” He asks “Do you know how much explosive material we catch here?” And I say “Let them catch it at a checkpoint leading into Israel.” He says “And how will be protect Kedumim then.”And so we get to the real reason for the checkpoints. 15.58 – 11 detainees in the enclosure because of the last four numbers of the id which appeared on the list. Some of them have been there an hour but within 15 minutes of our arrival they get their ids back and the enclosure empties. 16.15 – A group of rejoicing women, singing and playing on a musical instrument come to the checkpoint from the direction of Nablus. They are carrying a big bouquet of flowers. The soldiers do not check them and they get into two taxis which cross the checkpoint with singing and clapping.16.25 – Only the young people are checked going into Nablus. The soldiers do not treat the population harshly on purpose but their orders confuse and harass them. In the beginning the women pass in the humanitarian line without being checked but when the soldiers see that the line is thinning out at the turnstiles they tell them to go over there and so divide between men and women so that women who have already gone through have to do so again.The whole time a young man who seems to be a “big shot” is chumming and joking with the soldiers. 16.45 Checkpoint of Jit is open in both directions.