Shaked, Aanin, Salem, Thu. 15.06.06 AMObservers: Raya T., Hassida S. (reporting) Shaked 07:45 – 08:10 The gate is still open. One young man goes through. The soldiers are friendly. Today, they say, only the teachers went through because of the matriculation examinations.Raya continues helping a young woman from Tura, whose children suffer from hearing problems. It is a little hard to communicate with her because of language difficulties. An earlier attempt to get her a discount from a specialist in Nazareth did not work out. He refused to receive her. Today, in a telephone conversation with her, we discovered that one of her children has an appointment for an operation at the French Hospital in Nazareth, and the problem now is to get her permits to leave the PA and to remain with the child in the hospital.Aanin 08:20 – 09:40 Recently we feel that our presence at this gate, which is open only on Mondays and Thursdays, is very important to the Palestinians. It is now summer vacation, and many children are waiting, together with adults, for the gate to open. One man told us that he received a permit after our members took care of the matter. He is happy to help some others to ask us to fill out the forms and to send them. The feeling is that they have great expectations from us, as if granting permits and cancelling the refusals are in our hands. Raya will pass the material on to the team that takes care of those refused by the GSS, and we hope that there will be good results. For the soldiers who opened the gate, it was important to mention that they opened it at 08:25 (and not at 08:30 as is required) and that they closed it after 09:30 (and not at 09:00 as is required, according to them). We called their attention to the fact that the opening times of the gate do not appear on the sign at the CP.After our request to visit the DCO was refused categorically by the head of the DCO, Faris, we asked to observe the entrance into the Salem apparatus and also into the courtroom. By contrast with past attempts, this time, we could observe (from afar) those waiting on the south side of the Salem apparatus. Soldiers form the Border Police were conducting the passage, and we could not see if there were any particular problems. Afterwards, we went into one of the courtrooms, and we joined Shula and Mara who were already there (they have written a separate report).