Shaked, Rihan

Shaked, Rihan, Wednesday, February 2, 2005, PMObservers: Ziva H., Nava R. (reporting)12:00 - 15:20Shaked - There were no students at the gate.Rihan - A few pedestrians and a few vehicles all went through with no special problems.Among those returning from the occupied territories into Israel, were two who held Israeli ID cards and were sent back.A man married to an Arab Israeli from the village of Meissar wanted to cross into Israel. He said that usually the soldiers don't give him a hard time. This time they decided not to let him through. The District Coordination Office (DCO) representative also gave him a negative answer and he went, depressed, back into the West Bank.A youngster from the territories, wasn't allowed into Israel because he lacked a passage permit.The checkpoint commander demanded that we should leave the checkpoint site, claiming he could handle people at least as well as we can. He was very short with the Palestinians and tried hard to ensure that we would not hear what he told them.