Hawwara, Tuesday 16.8.2005, MorningWatchers:Ninette B. Aharona M. Nurit W. Rachel A. Dina A. (reporting) Na’ava (guest)On our way to Hawwara we passed at the Tapuach Junction, there is a quque of fars but the checking is regular and the queue progresses.8.10- We arrived at the northern checkpoint, it seems everything is in order, there are no queue, neither of cars nor of pedestrians, but this routine is depressing. There are not many people coming from Nablus , when we arrive there is one detainee who is released half an hour later. During the shift two women and a young boy who came together were detained because they had a Jordanian passport which was not valid, but they remembered that they also had an Israeli ID and then they were released. The commander of checkpoint A. and the representative of the Liaison Administration worked together very efficiently and it seemed their aim was not to make things difficult.A queue of cars at the exit from Nablus, usually ten cars, the checking takes time, private cars about ten minutes a bus more than twenty minutes, the checking of papers and parcels takes time, although all the time the soldiers were checking.In the morning when we arrived all the young men and some of the young women who entered Nablus were checked. To our question why? The answer was: that’s the order. At 9.00 the order was cancelled and the entry was again free.Few cars enter Nablus, one doesn’t have the necessary authorization and is sent back, a taxi arrives with a sick person, and although it has no entry permit, A. of the Liaison Administration checked the matter and let it pass, following our intervention. Another small truck with entry permit is allowed to pass, in it lies the father of the driver with two broken legs.Some time before 9.00 o’clock the loudspeaker announces that there is a hostile terrorist activity and everybody is asked to quickly go away, the MP soldiers, all the people at the checkpoint and we of course too leave the checkpoint. Some minutes later all is clear.A difficult routine, old people with the walking sticks, invalids, an invalid in his chair moves from checkpoint to checkpoint, a woman with a bridal flower arrangement, children, women and men in this heavy heat.Where the southern checkpoint used to be, there is a market and many taxis. According to the drivers on their side there is order, there is a person who manages the transports and they go out, each at his turn. One of the drivers tells us that his son is in the Jenin prison and he wants to visit him. He is not allowed to go to the north of the Western Bank, there is a curfew. 10.30- we drive to Beth Furik. The checkpoint is empty, and there are only a small number of soldiers manning it.We decide to return not via Tapuach but via the Jitt Junction, there is a new checkpoint there, with an iron fence and concrete blocks. There are no detainees there, nor a long line of cars.On our way we passed the village Hirbet Nabilias, very close to the Green Line Junction. All the shops were in the process of closing down. The army passed from shop to shop and checked whether all were closing. It turned out that a boy threw a stone at a car with an orange band, in the car there was a mother with her baby who got very frightened, and immediately a curfew was imposed on the village. This is the bad force of the occupation. This was a difficult experience.Near Yitzhar too there is now a checkpoint.