Shaked,Rihan Tuesday 20.6.06 p.m.Observer:Shula B.Guests: Amos B. Boaz A. (photographer)14:50 – 17:2015:00-Shaked The checkpoint is vacant and closed. Boaz, the photographer takes shots of what he finds fit.We walked into Abu-Shadi (the grocery store) and listened to his complaints. As a store owner (which is so beggary) he needs to go to Jenin to purchase supplies. that is the least expensive place. He could also buy merchandise in Barta’a but over there products are more costly. At the Rihan checkpoint he is always given hard time with the shopping bags . One shift would not allow him in while the next would. He does not understand why.While we were sitting with him and his family under a shady tree, a military vehicle had stopped and a soldier came in to buy cigarettes. It could very well be that this very same soldier was the one who gave him hard time at the checkpoint over a carton of cigarettes and now wishes to buy it at a reduced price. Other customers were residents of the settlements Shaked and Chinanit who also bought cigarettes and Cola .16:00 – Rihan Very few cars go through as well as a few pedestrians.The number of peddlers selling tea and sweets grows significantly.Before we cross over to the Palestinians car park area. Walid, our 15 th years old friend pours mint tea for me and remembers to do it “without sugar”. A fellow from Ya’abed who has been married to a woman from Barta’a for the last 15 years, she holds an Israeli I.D. card and he receives a passage permit to join heronly once in a blue moon. His request of 1995 for family reunion is stuck somewhere. He is prevented from obtaining a magnetic card and hardly sees his three children.He begs us to help him, giving us his former Israeli employer’s telephone number to advocate on his behalf: “He waits for the minute I could return to work for him”. Later we find out that the employer would have nothing to do with him, claiming that this person probably has a criminal record and that he has no intentions of re-hiring him.A fellow from Ya’abed begs us to go to Jalama to observe the checkpoint, where things are tough. He says this morning passage had started at 8:00.Most merchandise had already gone through. Ibraheem, one of the regular drivers, tries to bring in metal banister from the west bank to his new home in Um-el-Rihan. He is denied passage with the bars despite the fact that he made some sort of an “Arrangement” with the DCO.