Beit Iba. Monday afternoon, 10.7.2006.Observers: Ziona S. Yona H. (reporting)Natanya translating.Checkpoint Beit Iba. 17.00 A rolling checkpoint on road 57 about 500 metres before the turning to road 60 , a long line of cars going north to Tulkarm being checked. And this after they had already been checked at the crossroads of Jit and Beit Iba.17.10 A long line of cars at the entrance to Nablus at the permanent checkpoint at Beit Iba. About 25 cars and trucks. 2 groups of soldiers checking the cars in both directions. Ids and contents checked about a minute to a car. An ambulance sounds it sirens but there is no way it can get through the line. The soldier also hears the siren and asks us worriedly if we can see it. About 10 minutes later it manages somehow to get through. 17.30 There are a number of detainees and amongst them we see a man who has repeatedly been detained because of the method of using the last 4 numbers of the id to check against the list which the soldiers hold. The ids are checked against the computer and after about 10 minutes all are freed. The daily detention arouses anger and inult and the young man who recognizes us passed us with tears in his eyes and a curse on his lips. AN older man says that two hours ago he passed the checkpoint in the direction of Nabluss. At some stage he realized that his id was missing and went back to the checkpoint to see if he had left it there in the hands of the soldiers. The soldier would not listen to him and sent him to join the detainees. We also found it hard to draw the attention of the soldiers who were busy with carefully checking people in both directions. When all the ids had been checked and the older man’s id had not been found he was freed.During our shift young men were sent constantly to the enclosure where they were detained, their ids checked and then they were freed. A new routine procedure and the young men smile bitterly. Some of them calmly.