South Hebron, Tuesday 31/1/06 Observers: Michal TS., Hagit B. (Reporting) -14.00 AM10.00Road 60 Sansana CP is manned by reserve soldiers. No passers by. We went to see the separation barrier that can be seen from the road leading to Sansana. The fence was completed – Ramadin lies between the separation barrier and Daharia. The logic behind putting CP in Ramadin is hard to follow –no traffic there too. Today is a holiday for the Palestinians. Something with the end of year… did not exactly understand. Everybody is dressed up and there is no school. People that have work, go to work. All the rolling CP were put down and only the concrete barriers were left on the road, preparing it for more CPs.Moving a small distance from Sansana, we notice 4 Hammers moving in Yatir forest. Roads are almost empty from civilians and a lot of military movement.In the Daharia CP we can not see the grey metal gate – we think this is the work of the Iron thieves, since the blocking stones are denser than usual. Near Samoa, the digs for the blockage remind middle age walls, and the concrete barriers – on the other side. We don’t see Palestinian cab traffic, only people walking with or without a donky.Carame is closed. The rolling CP was taken.In Dir-Araza we see children watching from roofs and many soldiers. Turns up there Is a big military exercise. We talk to the officer in charge and he promises to answer our phone calls if needed. Now we find out the occupation problems: the gate in Dura el fuar – the only place that enables crossing of road 60, was closed for the military exercise, and the Palestinian traffic is blocked. And what does the soldier (who talks rudely to the Palestinians and to us) say? “I can do here whatever I want and whenever I want to do it. I don’t care and get out of here..” The gate was closed for a whole hour and a long traffic jam was created. The soldiers were training explosions etc., and the Palestinians had to wait. Why?When we ask the young officer why they do it, he answers a similar answer to the previous one: I can open and close whenever I want. This is occupation…In the mean time, mothers and children, dressed up for the holiday, have to cross 8 hundred meters by foot. Taxi drivers are angry and frustrated. A Taxi wants to pass into Hebron. The soldier asks for IDs. I could not hear what the Palestinian told the soldier, but could hear the rude answer he got.When I asked the soldier to talk honorably to the Palestinians, he tells me that this is closed military road and he could call the police. I tell him that he may call the police if he wishes to do so…. Suddenly we hear sounds of an Ambulance. The soldier quickly opens the traffic in order to let the ambulance go. The Taxi drivers can pass too. Now the military exercise is over, not before 30 soldiers empty their guns in proud gestures. The gate is now open.We drove away. Near Manoah Mt., the brigade headquarters, they are building a new Pillbox. Sheep cross-road – no military. In the humanitarian checkpoint Shiuch-Sair only the pillbox is manned. The same situation in Halhul east CP. We see works on widening the apartheid road. Road 36 – New concrete barriers in all the blockages. The traffic on the bridge Halhul-Hebron is free. The pillbox is manned.Road 356 – Reserve soldiers are manning the pillbox. In order to break the boring hours, they put a rolling CP. NO traffic at all – no one to be checked. The cameras are working, the new concrete barriers block the way down off the road from the home of Yusuf A. A. The soldiers went out, the house is locked, I wonder how much damage was left inside. Road 317 – The concrete barriers again, Switzerland CP was moved near the separation barrier. Kongo CP is still in place. Big work of widening the apartheid road can be seen. Apart from us only donkeys and one hammer can be seen. When will we see th end…?