Beit Iba, Mon 10.12.07, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Ronnie S., Osnat R. Mike (guest)

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Dec-10-2007

Morning

Natanya translating.

Summary. Everything is as usual. Our guest had a conversation with the soldier and the result was depressing. The fear, the lack of faith in the Palestinians and the hatred amongst the soldiers no matter what their political opinions are.

08.30 There are rolling checkpoints after the turn off to Nablus a little before Shave Shomron. This is to stop the settlers.

08.45 Beit Iba. No queues and 10 cars which take 10 – 15 minutes to pass. In this wonderful building, which is taking form, the traders still have to open their parcels on the floor while the trucks go through without being checked. At the entrance to Nablus no one is supposed to be checked according to what we are told by the DCO but the soldiers like to catch someone on their own initiative and do so, especially the young men . Because people do not know who is going to be checked they wait in line.
09.25 Four cars at the exit and no queues of pedestrians.

Location Description

Beit Iba

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A perimeter checkpoint west of the city of Nablus. Operated from 2001 to 2009 as one of the four permanent checkpoints info-icon closing on Nablus: Beit Furik and Awarta to the east and Hawara to the south. A pedestrian-only checkpoint, where MachsomWatch volunteers were present daily for several hours in the morning and afternoon to document the thousands of Palestinians waiting for hours in long queues with no shelter in the heat or rain, to leave the district city for anywhere else in the West Bank.
From March 2009, as part of the easing of the Palestinian movement in the West Bank, it was abolished, without a trace, and without any adverse change in the security situation.