Tapuach – Hawarra, Thursday 28.7.2005 PMObservers: Edna K. Roni K. (reporting)Natanya G. translating.The segregation Continues but has its own laws.At Hawarra in the extreme heat there is no water. The Machsomwatch women go past the soldiers and bring water in bottles.2 ambulances with urgent cases on their way to Nablus wait for many minutes. Tapuach crossroads, 14.15-14.45- 4 Cars from the west are waiting, 19 from the north. The soldiers faces turn sour when they see us. Their only request is that we keep our distance. We can see the exact checking of the people in the minibuses …including women and old people stuck in the back. The check takes about half an hour. Cars come from the south and we ask if there is segregation and why.Hawarra. 15.25- About 100 people wait in the lines. There is an improvement that rickety tables have been put in front of the carousels for bags to be checked before going through.Commander A. tells us to speak only to him. We do not see a representative of the DCO but afterwards learn that he was amongst the soldiers.The line of women was very long and at our request a humanitarian line was opened. There was only one boy detained and he was freed quickly.The entire time we were there cars were being checked.15.35- About 10 cars being carefully checked as well as ambulances. So it happens that a young man with appendicitis has to wait while the ambulance is carefully checked and behind him is a woman who has to have a caesarian. Her mother and the driver are both very angry and get out of the ambulance to try to make the soldiers aware of how urgent the situation is and this takes some precious minutes.The cars going out are in the distance and we see men being taken off 3 buses and stood in lines for checking and then back to the buses. An unpleasant sight.15.50- The pressure on the lines has decreased and we decide to go to Beit Furik but suddenly the DCO representative becomes aware of us . When we started to speak to him the commander told us that only he can do so.16.00 Beit Furik: We travelled the settlers road and saw Itamar A & B, etc. (where is Chirbet Tana?) we arrived at Beit Furik where the soldiers were not pleased to see us. Pedestrians passed quickly but cars were carefully checked. We waited about 20 minutes with a car which was detained at a suitable distance from the checking point. From there we could see the red buses going to Elon Moreh. The main thing was a meeting with villagers in holiday dress who were coming back from a wedding in Nablus and who were naively pleased to see us.16:30- Back to Hawarra: It was quiet so we drove up to Bracha from where one can see the back of the checkpoint especially the taxis at the northern side. When we came back the taxi drivers told us that there too is segregation.16:45-Tapuach checkpoint: This time the area was quiet as opposed to last week when there had been long lines, only one car and one police car. We decided not to delay but to go back to Hawarra and on the way there we were stopped by a man who asked for our help. He is a taxi driver and last week on the way to Beit Nabala stopped at Ar-ram to pray and when he came back to his taxi border police stopped him claiming that he had been illegally in Israel and confiscated his taxi for a month. A father of 7 children he is now without work. We phoned Chanah B. and read her the details (notice of use of vehicle forbidden) which the border police had given the man who had no idea of the topography. Chanah was not optimistic but said that she would see what she could do and would contact him on Sunday. We left him a visiting card and other phone numbers. These poor people have no one to turn to.We stopped for a falafel and a chat with a man who had come from Ramallah. It seems that the segregation only falls on people from Nablus.Tapuach, 17.45- The same situation and 19 cars waiting.