Beit Iba, Sun 7.10.07, Afternoon

15:00 Beit Iba

There is much commotion and noise at the entrance, the traffic is backed up to the Hawash Bros, there are trucks and taxis and a lot of honking, pedestrians are trying to make their way through the vehicles to safety.  

As we arrive at the vehicle CP we see the soldiers checking the IDs of vehicles coming out of Nablus, the check is slow.

Approaching the CP we notice the new addition of cement filled floor from the new structure to the existing booth.

The crowd of people was terrific, and was like this the entire time we were there.  There were at most times between 5 – 7 soldiers, but they were not working efficiently and not in a pleasant manner, they were shouting and motioning with their hands in their belittling fashion.

As bad as we think it is today, a well dress man comes up to us to tell us today is far better than yesterday (Shabbat) he said that in his opinion, Saturdays and Wednesdays are the worse days.  He said that yesterday the soldiers were “arrogant, cruel and brutal”.

There are 5-7 soldiers at vehicle CP but they are working very slowly, a lot of chit chatting between themselves. Although the vehicle lines are down and there are few vehicles waiting.