Huwarra, Tuesday, 10.10.06 PMObservers: Nadim, Amit Y, Dina P, Elath*Terrible pressure for pedestrians and passengers coming out of Nablus.*Lack of a humanitarian line all the time we are there. Men over 40 + women of all ages + disabled + children and babies – all in the same line headed to the same checking station.*”Sterile Area” in the plaza south of the checkpoint.*Two IDs that were confiscated this morning in the area of Awarta were “found” in the evening after the owners were sent back and forward between Awarta and Huwarra all day long.*A pick up driver with three crates of lemons at the entrance to Nablus was sent to Awarta.*The pen and the solitary cell are empty all the time we are there.*A military policewoman is inspecting the youngsters with the usual strip routine.*The porters are being harassed, detained, punished and inspected with unusual thoroughness, which causes extra delays for the owners of goods, who after standing in line for a long time for their inspection, then have to wait while their deliveries are checked again for another hour.*A dog handler puts the animal into the taxis coming from Nablus after all the contents and the people have been emptied out on the roadway and the passengers have been pushed back to a point where they can watch the action. The process, apart from being invasive, humiliating, disgusting and sadistic takes 20 minutes per taxi, which explains the three hours wait for outbound vehicles.Zaatra 14:15 – from the west no cars. From the north, 28 waiting. We did not stop.Burin – one car being checked, another waiting.HuwarraBehind the turnstiles the usual picture: at a riugh guess 400 to 500 men, women, elderly and young children.The checkpost: one from the east, for men up to 40 who are being checked by a military policewoman and a soldier with pointed gun “covering” the woman. A second post for everyone else. No humanitarian line. At this stage the waiting time for youngsters is three hours, and an hour to an hour and a half for the second line.14:43 – phone call to Miriam at the Centre.Vehicles at the entrance to Nablus, the check stops periodically till five or ten cars are waiting, when it renews for a few minutes, then stops again. Outbound vehicles are waiting an hour and a half.The soldier responsible for inspecting inbound vehicles devotes a large part of his time to driving away the women who are waiting by the concrete partition, south of the checkpoint for their husbands or baggage. “I want a sterile area… the area must be sterile.”Laugh or cry?The women, all ages and situations, with or without children and babies in arms, at the end of a day of fasting and after priolonged and exhausting standing in the inspection line, don’t bother to relate to the questuion.Save one Israeli citizen detained for an hour, a quarter of that in the pen, there are no detainees while we are there.16:40 – eight women after inspection are waiting in the “sterile area.”The friend of an Israeli suffering from diabetes, and fasting, draws my attention to the detainee held since 15:00, still standing by the turnstiles. He is moved to the pen and will be released without arrival of the police at 16:50.At 16:15, a woman who we have been watching, waiting for her husband for an hour and twenty minutes (he is 39 – in the youngster’s line!) spoke to him on a cellular phone. He says that he is still in line, and doesn’t succeed in progressing. We approached D. with the husband’s name and ID number, and a request that he helps the man to move forward. D. refuses and gives us an explanation why it is not within his authority or capability… The time that the explanation takes would be adequate to extricate the man.. We also tried Miriam and she tried, but got the same answer. Finally he managed to get through (seems that the pressure dropped and all the toughs had gone through, or perhaps he had reached a point from which they couldn’t push him back). At 17:00 he came out.