Beit Furik, Huwwara, Za'tara (Tapuah), Tue 18.11.08, Morning
Translation: Suzanne O.
Tapuach Junction
8:10 a.m.
There are almost no cars.
Beit Furiq
8:20 a.m.
About 20 cars are in the queue. There are not many soldiers at the roadblock. The pace is slow - a car at a time from each direction. A driver we asked claimed to have been waiting for about an hour. Someone else said that yesterday evening crowds of people queued to leave Nablus.
Huwwara
9:15 a.m.
There are about 20 people in the queue at the roadblock. Two checkpoints and a humanitarian queue are open. People are sent to the x-ray machine which is further away because of the road works.
Passengers of a bus on its way out of Nablus are taken off for inspection. They are school boys. They are sent, one at a time, with their satchels to go through the x-ray machine. The inspection took over 20 minutes.
A Red Crescent ambulance arrives at the car park, a young man on a stretcher is put in it and within a few minutes the ambulance crosses the roadblock into Nablus.
The DCO officer tells us that a terrorist with explosives was caught at Beit Iba (?). Everything appears to be as usual.
Tapuach Junction
10:10 a.m.
There are no cars.