Huwwara

Huwwara 30 July 2007 Watchers: Roni S. and Osnat R. (reporting)Translation: Suzanne O.Junction of Roads 60 and 5510:30 a.m.There is a temporary roadblock in the direction of Jit Junction. There are two cars in the queue.Huwwara10:40 a.m.The car park is overflowing. The soldiers have decided to move the stallholders away and there are almost no stallholders near the entrance to the roadblock.There is no queue of cars at the entrance.At least fifty people are behind the turnstiles. Women do not have to cross through the magnometer.Again, there are scenes of people who have to cross the road and jump over the concrete blocks in order to reach the x-ray machine.The passengers of a taxi at the exit from Nablus are required to get out of the taxi and wait at the side, in the sun, while their luggage is removed and put through the x-ray machine.We cross the white line and, almost immediately, a military policeman and the roadblock commander appear; after some argument they give up and leave us alone.p>Two Gaza residents, with an entrance permit to Israel, who have been staying in Nablus because their brother has had surgery, are held up at the exit from Nablus because they do not have a permit to stay on the West Bank. Roni spoke to the roadblock commander and to Naomi and managed to get hold of someone who could make a decision at the DCO and, finally, they were released.11:40 a.m.We leave.