South Hebron, Monday 29.5.06, MorningObservers: Ye’ela L., Paula R. (reporting)06:45 – 10:45Road No. 60 – There was no presence of military on the ground at junctions of Fura-el-Pawar and the Sheep Junction. We took in and admired the view of the small, cultivated plots of land by sheer bare hands, as the farmers are prevented of reaching their lands with mechanical machinery. At Hebron we did not encounter any detainee by the several checkpoints. The children went through the meganometers, and the teachers went from the side. It was very quiet.On our way back, we stopped at the CP of the entrance to Ramadin, the village that is encircled and where only Ramadin residents are allowed to enter. Border Patrol soldiers manned the CP. There were around 10 or more detainees, people who were looking desperately for work, and been caught, were sent to this CP, where they might be detained for indefinite hours, depending on the whim of the commander, under the baking sun. One told us that sometimes 150 people are detained between the hours seven and ten a.m. This time the head of the municipaility, Abed, and sheich Nuaf were there to try and persuade the commander of the CP to allow 4 technicians and an electrical engineer to enter the village in order to connect the village to electricity. They were waiting already for 2 hours. Anton was adamant. They are not from Ramadin, and therefore not allowed to enter. We tried to reason with him, and called higher ranks. An hour later Albert Turgeman, their commander arrived. He released the detainees, who had lost the chance for work that day and had to pay a considerable sum for a taxi to take them back to Dahriyyah. Around 10:30 the electricians were also allowed to enter, after over three hours of waste of time. This is an incomplete observation (for it does not depict the self-rightuous posture of Anton, and the look of despair in the eyes of the cought people desperate for a days work, and the pleading of the dignitaries, and more, and more) of a morning’s experience with “enlightened occupation”.