Sheikh SaedTuesday, 12.12.2006, PMObservers; Rina H. Rahel W. (reporting)En route to Sheikh Saed, we saw several detainees waiting opposite the military installation on the road leading from the UN headquarters and Sheikh Saed. That’s the first time we ever saw any kind of activity there.Sheikh Saed – Arrived at thr checkpoint at about 14:00. There were three border police, one of whom told us that if we crossed over we would not be able to come back. We told him that we were there every week and we had never heard of such a regulation. A second BP said that we were not allowed into Isawiyya!! We told him that that was not Isawiyya but Sheikh Saed and asked if he knew where he was. He said it was his first day there and he wasn’t quite sure about where he was.It was obviously the first time for all three of them and they clearly hadn’t the vaguest notion not only of where they were but of what they should be doing. They compensated for their ignorance by being exceptionally rigid. At about 15:00, a group of highschool students arrived. They all had blue ID’s, but most were not let through. Only those living in Jebel Mukaber were allowed through. The others, living in Silwan, Um Tuma, and Zur Bakher, all walking distance from the checkpoint were denied passage. We called Elisha who verified that that indeed was the ruling. Any students who were not from Jebel Mukaber had to return home via the Zeitim CP. The students did not leave but stayed around, obviously hoping for a change of guard or an opportunity to jump over the fence at some point. They simply did not have the money to hire a car to take them to the Zeitim CP and then back to their homes which were located minutes from where they were then standing. They all had Jerusalem residencies. This whole thing had nothing to do with security. It was sheer harrassment and a gratuitously cruel regulation, causing needless bother, inconvenience, and bitter resentment.