Hawarra, Monday 29.8.2005, PMWatchers: Macky S. Riva B. Biriya L. Hagit F. (reporting)Natanya translating.On the way to Hawarra we stopped at Tapuach where 20 cars were waiting and the checking was slow and routine. A driver waiting to go to a wedding in his empty taxi has been waiting for over an hour.A father with a sick child is helped by the soldiers to pass quickly.A conversation with Ada sends us to the Git checkpoint. Great tension and the commander who does not want us to stop at the checkpoint phones the blue police who are nearby as we try to explain to him what our rights are. A large group of young men who have been taken off a bus are sitting in the blazing sun without water. The checking is very slow and there is no one that we can talk to. DCO Nablus does not answer our calls and neither does a call to DCO Tulkarm help. We go on to Hawarra where life is frozen and there are long lines in all directions which we have never seen before. 3 hours already and the pressure is without boundaries.A young boy has been caught with a box of explosives. No point in asking what does this parcel which passed through the x-ray contain …the rumour says it was a dummy explosion and why was the young boy sent. The robot exploded the parcel and the young boy is in the enclosure.The soldiers tell us they will first free the pedestrians and then the cars. Sergeant A. and his men do their best . At 16,00 the women, children and the aged are passed through without checking. The men are checked one by one, thirsty and with suffering faces. Where are the water closets?Major A. and his deputy free the line.17.00- the taxis going into Nablus are freed and in less than an hour everything is routine. The boy and two men who disturbed the peace remain. They are waiting for the Secret Service. The soldiers give them water at our request. On the way back at the checkpoint of Tapuach 4 taxis which passed through Hawarra and are being checked again. One says that he started his journey to Ramallah at about 13.00 …3 hours he waited at Hawarra, another hour at Tapuach….and that he could have got to Paris. B. from the DCO was very inimical towards us, did not seem to understand what his duties were and his speech showed it.