Beit Iba, Tuesday, 1.8.2006, PMObservers: Hodit H. P. Racheli B. A. Tali K.(reporting)Natanya translating. 14.50 Beit Iba. There are 12 detainees and we are not allowed to talk them. The commander threatens to call the police if we do so even though this is within our rights. But we did speak to them and they said that they had been there for an hour to an hour and a half and had not been given water. We bought some for them and complained to the centre and they were freed. At the entrance to Nablus: 12 cars, mostly buses and trucks waiting about an hour. At the exit from Nablus we could see the end of the lane of cars, waiting time of one hour to one hour and 40 minutes. 15.10 5 new detainees who ask the commander for water and he says “None now.” Again we bought water. When we came back the commander had put a barbed wire fence around the jorra so that we should not be able to pass the water bottles or speak to them. We managed to pass the water through and complained to the centre. One of the soldiers checking IDs throws them on the floor after checking them. 17.15 Two more detainees. The commander says to the five detained previously that they tried to bypass the checkpoint and that he will detain them until 21.00. The centre after innumerable phone calls says they will check. A man who has a blue Israeli ID and a native of Nablus wishes to visit his wife who is suffering from postnatal depression and who is with her family in Nablus. Each day he has been allowed to pass the checkpoint to visit her. Today the commander refuses and he has been waiting for an hour and a half hoping to pass. In the line from Nablus is a man who is trying to take a small gas burner to his home in Qalqiliya. The commander demands that he dismantle the head but in spite of all his efforts even with keys which are in his hands and pliers he is unable to do so. He is allowed through but the burner not. A student with a Saudi passport is detained. He is a student from Nablus and each day he is detained on his way to Qalqiliya. The centre refuses to help.Even though during the entire shift we spoke to the detainees the commander did not summon the police. But he did not answer our questions or complaints but all the time repeated that we should send parcels to the soldiers in Lebanon.With his own hands he moved objects trying to keep us from the jorra but this did not help him and he was helpless. His maltreatment was only successful when he was dealing with those weaker than him…the local population. We left at 18.00