Za’atra Huwwara Beit Furik Monday 7.8.2006 PMObservers: Macky S. Daphna P. (reporting)Natanya translating.12.30 – Three cleaners, probably Palestinians, walk along road 5 from the east of Oranit and are cleaning the sides of the road. Continuing in the direction of Ariel are bags of rubbish which they had already filled.12.45 Za’atara. There are no lines from the west and from the north 37 cars. At the checkpoint are reservists who have been brought in to replace the soldiers who have been sent to Lebanon. At the parking lot there is a detainee who has been there 10 minutes. A bus driver from Jerusalem who cheeked the soldiers. The commander promises to free him in a few minutes.13.00 Crossroads Burin. The checkpoint is not manned on the Hawarra road. On the road which leads to Yishar are 3 cars.13.10 -The commander. A. sees us from a distance and shouts very dissatisfied….”But you have already been here today. “ In the isolation cell in the distance to which we are not allowed to go is a handcuffed man, Samar, who has been there since 8 am because he is said to have made a sexual remark to a woman soldier who told him to lift his shirt and take off his belt. A. passes the shift to the commander L. and tells him that the man endangered the “sexual security” of the soldier. The man wants a cigarette but A. thinks he does not deserve one. He says that he has also received permission from the District Commissioner’s Office and the secret service to keep the man imprisoned for as long as it takes…8 hours. We are still trying to check this story with A. and L. simply opens the door and freeds the man after a little more than 5 hours of imprisonment.O., a soldier who guards the checkpoint post, He insists on aiming his rifle directly at the heads or upper bodies of those being checked. And now and again probably because he is so bored also looks through the aiming device at them. The people look at him in fear. One of them actually has the nerve to grin and aim with his finger at his own head. O. falls upon him. “What? You want a bullet in your head.” He then takes the man;s id and forces himself to walk submissively after himself. Then he tells him to go to the end of the line and holds his id as a guarantee.”Get our of my sight. If you don’t get out of my sight I will fuck you in the face.” The guard asks O. what the man had done and O. replies in anger “What did he do? He had the cheek to laugh at me in my face. I will not let him pass through today.” So it will be done to who has the nerve to laugh of O.14.15 -21 cars wait in line. From what we have been told in the last days trucks who are working “back to back” have to pay but today there is no such thing. The soldiers says that this is come contract which the civil administration has decided on to be paid to a company. The drivers know to tell us that those who are dealing with this payment are a Palestinian and an Israeli who demand 5 shekel from each truck in the entire area. On our return t the checkpint at 15.00 there was a commotion as the result of the firing by Palestinians on soldiers a few minutes previously. It then appeared that as a result of the return fire of the soldiers a Palestinian woman had been wounded . All movement at the checkpoint stopped and the line of trucks lengthened. Army jeeps arrived and we were asked to move away from the area.15.15 Back to Hawarra. Because of the fear that those who had fired at Awarta might try to break through the checkpoint by car there was here also a “closure of life”.15.30 Burin crossroads. No cars.15.37 -10 cars waiting from the north.Two taxi drivers detained while their ids are being checked.