Jubara, Anabta, Wednesday, 27.7.05, PMObservers: Raya Y., Sara P., Yael S., Hagar L. (reporting)Summary:14:15 Jubara – Very long Queue of vehicle going out from Tulkarm. Pedestrians are now allowed to pass (only in cars), except Jubara’s residents and passengers into Israel. Segregation continues. 14:15 Jubara – 2-3 hours queue for vehicles coming from Tulkarm, according to drivers who have just passed the checkpoint. Two soldiers check each car rather thoroughly. The platoon commander (N.) approaches us and we turn his attention to the long long queue, he is aware of it: “it has been so since the last terror attack in Natanya, afterward they intensified the checking”. We claim that intensifying checking without adding soldiers means collective punishment for passengers and ask him to add more soldiers and to open another line. Few minutes later he instruct that they will check two cats simultaneously, each another car, and the queue starts moving somewhat faster. DCO rep.(A.) positive toward us, we ask him to act to cut the queues and to fix the dangerously faulty path from the main road to the checkpoint, showing him a bus turning to its side in order to be able to take the decent, which could turn over very easily. He promised to raise it to the higher ranks. 14:50 – Anabta – supposedly temporary checkpoint (not rolling though) – One soldier checks incoming and outgoing pedestrians from Tulkarm (including few cars: doctor’s, truck), one guards him closely, another on guard farther. The commander (captain) and more soldiers sit in martial vehicle, 2 detainees under shadowing net. Although few pedestrians are present, there is a queue, obviously the soldiers are not skilled, they run often to the commander with I.Ds. The commander responds to our question of why there are so few soldiers to check pedestrians since this is the only ped. passage now from Tulkarm, that “he does not have more soldiers to put here because some were wounded in Antonia’s terror attack, others were wounded in operational activities in Tulkarm and now their friends visit them”…). We recommend to monitor this checkpoint if the current situation continues, whereby pedestrians are allowed only through Anabta: there is no DCO rep., no shadowing for people waiting on the line, no counter to put packages for checking and everything is put on the road, and the soldiers don’t speak Arabic. 15:10 – detainees are freed, we go to Beit-Iba.