Rihan, Tuesday, 7.2.06 PM Observers and reporters: Mara BD, Shula B14:00 – 15:30 Summary: If there were no army and fence and heavy iron gates, if there were no bitter and despondent people, the only crime we would be compelled to report would be our lust to pick anemones color = red>. The blossoming is in its peak…The bicycle that Said received as a present is punctured in both wheels. The joy was brief. There is no one to repair it. Vehicle Checkpoint When we arrive, an empty transit is being checked, while young olive plants, taken off it, lie alongside. Every individual tree is being checked with a magnometer. Perhaps there is an explosive charge hidden in the soil around its roots.At the Palestinian parking lot, a number of Transits with produce are awaiting their turn to be checked. Others are waiting – empty.We learnt that in this parking lot there is a small back-to-back. Agricultural produce and other goods arrive from the West Bank with drivers who are not allowed to enter the seam zone. The produce is transferred to approved transits that then deliver it across the bulge.We also learned that the limit on the number of vehicles approved to transfer goods in commercial quantities, has been lifted. Today, anyone with a suitable vehicle and a pass from the DCO can go through. Two or three cars waiting at any moment during our shift – mostly taxis. Pedestrian CheckpointSix women descend from a taxi that has brought them from the West Bank. They continue in to the terminal. Above the turnstiles, a green light. The women walk through. Not a soldier to be seen. No cries of “Taal!” (“Come!”).Automatic checkpoint. The reality in this passageway is transferred by a monitor to the supervising soldier who sits in the booth near the gate. The women emerge after five minutes.During our shift very few people passed in either direction.