Huwwara Awarta Beit FuriqThursday, 26/4/2007, AMObservers and reporters: Moran A., Esti W., Nava A.Translation: Hanna K.Just another frustrating day06:45 Tapuah/Za’atara. The road is free of blocks, at the entrances to Marda and Zeita workers are waiting for transportation.At the “humanitarian” lanes there are plastic barricades that slow down the traffic very much. According to the soldiers a Palestinian trucks sped yesterday through the lane designated for cars with yellow number plates and for the favored and disappeared. Therefore the obstacles were put there. At the center of the lamp square an armed soldier is standing, probably in order to prevent the recurrence of such an event.From the west there are no cars, and from the direction of Huwara there is a quite long queue of cars. There are two checking lanes, but each car is being checked.The soldiers of the armored corps report that there is no segregation. 07:05 the Yitzhar/Burin CPs are not manned.Huwara CP. A lively traffic of pedestrians. The humanitarian gate is in action. The binoculars is again placed from the north. There are no dog-training girl soldiers and not DCO. There is nobody in the solitary confinement cell or in the detainees shed. The humanitarian point is filthy.There are two checking lanes for pedestrians, and a humanitarian gate. The cars are checked in one lane only. According to the CP commander he opens a second lane only when there are dog-training girl-soldiers, as he has no manpower.07:30 Awarta. A few cars are waiting at the entrance to the town, and there are three vans at the back to back lot. All have local number plates. The CP commander informs us that we have to leave the place immediately and that since a month Israelis are forbidden to stay there “for the sake of our own security”.07:45 Beit Furic. A queue of 27 vehicles waiting for the soldier’s wave of the hand. Trucks loaded with sheep and hens are waiting for more than an hour and the CP commander refuses to open another checking lane: “I have no manpower”. Only a children’s bus, on the way to the swimming pool, dares to enter the empty lane, and the soldiers agree to check it beyond the letter of the law.A young man is detained in the shed “he is under investigation”. Half an hour later he is on his way to the village.A filming crew of the members of Machsom-Watch are on the site. The commander tries to apply against them the law of the invisible line, but a phone call to the battalion command enables them to film on the other side of the checkpoint as well.A young man, holder of a Jordanian passport is not allowed to pass on to Nablus. He hold a paper, signed by the head of the village of Beit Furic, which testifies that he lives there. He claims that he is on his way to the DCO to have a local ID card issued to him. According to the CP commander he is on his way to work in Nablus, and has already passed several times using this excuse. Today he doesn’t pass.When we leave the CP – the queue of waiting cars has “dwindled” to about twenty. At the last moment the person responsible for the road-building work in the village approaches us, he is worried that the drivers of the asphalt cars won’t be allowed to pass through the CP because they are not local residents. We advised him to make contact with the help of our filming crew. We didn’t get any call for help, it seems that the soldiers used their good judgment.09:00 Back to Huwwara. There is no pressure of pedestrians, but the car queue is as long as it was before, and still only one checking lane functions.A young Israeli Arab who studies in Nablus (a blue ID card) is detained for a long while until his papers are checked. According to him he is studies already for three years and passes freely on those days on which the CP commander chooses not to create a mess.We are told that one the far end of the CP a young boy, without a ID card is trying to return to his home after having undergone medical treatment for his chronic illness in town. He tries to attach himself to different grown-ups but the soldiers demand to see his parents and return him to Nablus. Until we succeed in getting the commander’s attention the boy is already far away. We hope that he’ll find somebody who will accompany him home. 09:40 CP at Yitzhar\Burin junction are still empty.Tapuah\Zaatara junction – a few cars are waiting.Zeita and Marda There are no soldiers at the entrances to to the villages