Beit Iba, Mon 26.11.07, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Nina S., Osnat R. (reporting)

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Nov-26-2007

Morning

Translation: Judith Green

07:55: There are about 10 vehicles at the exit from Nablus and another two on the humanitarian line. Two vehicles at the entrance to Nablus. The vehicles going out are carefully inspected: ID, permits, baggage, motor cover, glove compartment, etc. Passengers in a vehicle which was not allowed to enter Nablus have to get out and go through the pedestrian line. There is one truck which was detained for having a false permit. The truck is left for the police to come and take it away.

Pedestrians enter without any inspection. Pedestrians leaving Nablus are checked at a temporary stand, IDs and hand luggage.

There are two soldiers with drawn weapons in the area before the turnstiles. Sometimes they stop youths and ask for their IDs, ask to lift up their jackets and do a hand check to make sure they don't have any weapons; only then they allow them to proceed to the inspection booth.

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.