Za’atara, Huwwara, Beit Furik, Saturday 18.2.06 AMObservers: Michal P., Eilat B.Translation: Hanna K.Summary: A short, dry report: thousands of people of all ages and in all possible conditions are treated with contempt, are tortured, humiliated, their time has no value, their property is made worthless…routine!On the phone early in the morning they informed Micky that the Beit Furik CP hadn’t been opened and hundreds are waiting to pass.Za’atara 0900 Eight vehicles coming from the west.Fifty nine vehicles coming from the north, including five buses. The queue reaches almost the outskirts of the village of Huwwara.One driver who is in the middle of the queue left at 06:00!!!three hours ago! From Nablus. A phone call to A. at the center. He will investigate the matter.Yitzhar 0945 Eight taxi passengers are waiting 45 minutes. An elderly man from a village in the Jerusalem region whose Palestinian ID is being examined.A phone call to the center and to Hanna B., At 1030 his relase will be reported.There are forteen vehicles in the queue and a police patrol car on the junction itself.Huwwara 10:08 About hundred people are waiting in the crowded queue. Everybody in the same queue. Two interior turnstiles are functioning and one next to one ID checking post. There is no humanitarian queue.E., a military police captain bothers Michal and tries to draw her into an endless motivation talk…On the other hands the CP commander, a short,wicked, second lieutenant informs me that everything is OK, that we should not stand here, and not go there…He summons the police after I go up to the queue of the waiting people from the eastern side, because one of the young men calls me and says he is very ill, has an asthma attack and is unable to wait in the queue. Later it will turn out that the young man was the one who cheated me…A phone call to A. at the center with the request to send a representative of the DCO and to open a humanitarian queue.1040 – A police patrol car has arrived. Our ID’s are checked at the terminus and we are warned, and the policemen hurry off “to other law-breakings”.1050 – There is a humanitarian queue. The crowdedness is still horrible. Young men, without children and without luggage succeed in passing “quickly” – something like half an hour…1057 – From a high observation point we counted nine vehicles waiting to leave Nablus. We measured the time for the last one: one hour and three minutes.1120 – Beit Furik Not many pedestrians quickly pass in both directions. Vehicles too. The puppies are still waiting for the kind souls to come and collect them…The taxi drivers tell us about the difficult morning that has been here..1145 – Huwwara About two hundred people crowd in the queue. About forty five minutes per person. There is no humnanitarian queue. Complaints about the crowdedness, the physical hardship, the humiliation, the debasement. “Do something!”There are just a few vehicles in the entrance to Nablus. At the exit there is no change. The vehicle for which we measured the time – has passed.A phone call to A. at the humanitarian center.1211 Yitzhar – 42 vehicles in the queue. No detainees.1220 Zaatara – no queues..