Beit Iba. Famillies cannot unite at the checkpoint.

Synopsis:
Matters at the checkpoint have seemingly improved.
The mountains of trash disappeared. Traffic going into Nablus is flowing. No inspection is carried out at the entrance. But speaking with people has revealed that all this constitutes only a partial picture. Traffic leaving Nablus is extremely slow. Young people, taken off the buses for inspection at the pedestrians' checkpoint, are forced to wait an hour or more for their buses to cross the checkpoint. Families including young adults are split. The whole family is forced to wait a long time until the latter emerges from the checkpoint.15:55 – There are much less taxis in the area. Traffic into Nablus is flowing. Traffic exiting Nablus is slow. There are no detainees at the pedestrian checkpoint. We encounter a family - a man, a woman, and their 3-year-old child and baby. They crossed in the humanitarian lane, and have been waiting since – for the last half hour – for their 16 and 20-year-old children to come through the rotaries.
They are impatient. The small children are hungry and tired. But the older children haven't yet emerged. The man complains that the soldiers treat them crudely: Go there, move, etc., "as if we aren't human beings". "I am a school teacher", he says. "I teach my students to treat each person as a human being, never mind if the person is Jewish, Muslim or Christian." "An army versus civilians is a bad situation." He advises us to go to schools and explain to the would-be soldiers that people passing through the checkpoints are human beings.
He would be ready to even accept the existence of the checkpoint, but not the treatment. He maintains that from the moment we came, the soldiers' behavior improved.16:00 – A young man from Jenin, who works in Nablus, exits the checkpoint after he is taken off to be inspected at the pedestrians' checkpoint. He tells us that twenty buses are waiting in line before his bus. Even if he exaggerated and doubled the number, his bus will cross in two hours at the earliest; we observe that from the moment a bus arrives at the checkpoint until the documents of all the passengers are collected and inspected and the young people taken off can re-board, twenty minutes pass.16:20 – The cue for young adults is short. They pass through one by one, quietly, with discipline. Usually, each person passing through the rotary - controlled from the outside by a soldier – gets stuck inside. Each one undergoes the shirt-raising ceremony, rotation on the spot, and bag inspection. The ordeal is familiar. The main thing is to get home. 17:00 – Jit Junction is empty. One position is manned on Road 60 to the south of Jit Junction, but the sparse traffic flows without delays.