Za’atara, Beit Furik, Awarta, Huwwara, Monday 10.4.06, PMObservers: Guest: Mia S.Macky S., Dafna P. (reporting)Translation: Hanna K.Summary: A day of very sparse traffic owing to the holiday (prophet Muhamed’s birthday), the differentiation regulations and the movement restriction for the young people. The village of Huwwara is very agitated because of the detention of Bilal, the sixtenn old son of the grocery owner, who was detained, according to the claim of the inhabitants, for no reason, four days ago and his family doesn’t know where exactly he is being held.12:50 Zaatara:10 cars one one bus coming from the West are waiting. The IDs of all the bus passengers are taken for a quick check. The bus is being sent on its way five minutes later. The soldier in the checking post allows the car in which there is a sick child to by-pass the car queue.The soldiers refuse to give us the day’s differentiation regulations.8 cars coming from the North are waiting.At the central square a girl dog-trainer and a dog are checking a taxi while its passengers sit on the ground, their back turned to the taxi.13:14 -There is a CP at the Yitzhar Junction for vehicles coming from the North (including those coming from Huwwara where they have already waited) . There are 4 taxis waiting to be checked.13:25 Beit Furik -The traffic is sparse. The soldiers maintain that there is a “hot alert” and that because of it were are not allowed to stand in the CP area.In the “sewer” there is a young man who, according to the soldiers, has arrived with his father who handed him over. We try to verify the soldiers’ version in a conversation with the young man, but the soldiers insist on mixing into the conversation and sending us away , outside the CP area. From the liaison administration’s operations room they say that they are unaware of the matter, but after checking they say that they are due to come and take the young man away, for reasons they cannot disclose.One of the taxi drivers complains about the sweeping prohibition concerning the passage of taxi at the CP.13:45 Awarta -There is no truck queue. There a back to back passage of a few pairs of trucks.14:05 Huwwara -On the way to the CP we meet two people from the village of Huwwara who tell us dramatically about the detention of Bilal, the 16 year old son of the grocer’s son from Huwwara, on Thursday, about four days ago, and about the fact that they do not know exactly where he is. We let them use our phone to contact the center for the protection of human rights, and there they are advised to take a lawyer. Later we shall be approached by other people from the village in the same matter which seems to stir up the emotions of everybody.14:20 Huwwara CP -In spite of the fact that it is a holiday (the prophet’s birthday) there are many people waiting at the CP and the shed behind the turnstiles are crowded. There is no humanitarian queue. Everybody is being checked, young men in one queue, women and older men in the second. In a sample check of a young man holding a toddler in his hands all during the checking time, we measured 45 minutes of waiting.The differentiation regulations: Men and women in the ages of 16-30 from Tul Karem and Jenin are not allowed to pass, men aged 15-30 from Nablus too are not allowed to pass.At the CP there now is captain A., a military police company commander and also captain D. from the liaison administration. D. promises to see into the matter of Bilal from Huwwara, who probably is being detained in the detention facility of the brigade.14:45 -A humanitarian queue for women and older men is being opened. At 15:35 the passage is closed and those still waiting there are all returned to the crowded checking queues.An elder man, slightly limping, goes up to the soldier on the road asking him to allow him to by-pass the queue. He shows him the wound on his leg and the x-rays he is holding in his hand. The soldier opens the cardboard bag, takes the x-rays out and checks them thoroughly. He then lets him by-pass the queue.A boy cries in the arms of his father who has already been waiting for half and hour. When we approach the CP commander in the matter he asks: “how old is the father?” and when it transpires that the father has to wait in the young men’s queue owing to his age, he sums the matter up: “nothing can be done, the child will also cry in a queue in an airconditioned room”.15:35 -A young man who wishes to leave Nablus in the direction of Aqraba is being returned to Nablus. The reason: in his ID he did indeed write Aqrabe, but in the computer he is registered as an inhabitant of Nablus, so that the differentiation regulations apply to him. But his house and his family are at Aqraba – what will he do in Nablus? He tells us that the last time he passed the CP was a month ago, before the present age regulations came into force, therefore he did not know about them. The CP commander does not believe him and explains to us: “How is it possible that he doesn’t know? Everybody knows that there are age restrictions”. After some repeated insistent pleadings and perhaps also due to the indirect assistance from the CSO which we contacted, the young man is sent on his way and is asked to see to it that the address by corrected in the computer.16:20 -A CP at the Yitzhar junction for vehicles coming from the North (including those who have come from Huwwara and have already waited there). 13 taxis in a double lane wait to be checked.16:20 -4 cars are waiting to be checked