Qalandiya Saturday 25.12.04 AMObservers: Hanna B., Vivi S., Nurit Sh., Michal, Soli, Hedva A.,Miri, Rachel, Amalya W. (reporting)The road is all puddles, mud, and garbage everywhere.The checking posts are manned mostly by Military Policewomen,surrounded by many soldiers. No free passage.IDs are checked, even if not meticulously, no lines nor detainees, but no passage free of ID checks as was observed in Huwara last Saturday.A 17 year-old student at an Atarot vocational school is not allowed through, despite his student card. Why? Just so.We tried to ask who the CP commander was and received no answer, but the same soldier who said he “won’t talk with us, nor should we talk with him”, finally agreed to talk to us and said he is not letting the boy through.We asked about the promised “easier” conditions, and he said there was no such thing. We called the humanitarian hotline, and after Vivi’s vehement efforts, they called the CP to let the boy through, but he had already given up, to our dismay, and gone back. The girl soldiers at the northern end of the CP would not let us through to look for him.A Military Policewoman standing by the electric gate addresses the pedestrians with callous contempt.At the northern end, an additional checking post, manned by a soldier who gruffly demands of people to “put out their cigarettes, this is public area”, etc.The checkpoint actually consists of 3 checking posts:At the beginning, soldiers who direct people while teaching them “how to behave”, then the electric gate – constantly beeping – surrounded with soldiers, and finally the ID checking post.A Hebron resident was not allowed through and instructed to make the roundabout much longer route through Surda.Rain started falling and we proceeded to Huwara.