Qalqiliya checkpoint, Tuesday 18.9.07 AMObservers: Ruti C, Elinoar B (reporting)06:30-07:00 – For a moment it seemed that the traffic flows, no checking of vehicles, then a bus arrives from the direction of the town, the border policemen manning the checkpoint instruct the driver to pull up, let the passengers out and collect their IDs. These are checked inside the police jeep by a computer. The passengers are all young men, students at A-Najah in Nablus. The checking takes exactly half an hour. To our repeated questions why everybody else can pass almost freely, and why this should take so much time, they answer that these people are suspect. The students tell us this happens every day. We know that this is not the end of their adventure: they’ll have to pass another checkpoint in Beit Iba.Many small children pass the checkpoint on foot, and picked up by a bus on the other side. Apparently they go to school in Jaljoulia.10:00 – Azun – on the way back from Tulkarm checkpoints we drove through A-Ras, Sur, Jamal, Jayyus and Azun. At the exit to Rd. 55 stood a group of soldiers. According to them the house previously occupied by the army (the procedure is called “grass widow”) is now free, and their instructions are to go easy with the villagers during Ramadan.