Beit Iba, Tue 18.12.07, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Ruthie C. Shlomiet S.

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Dec-18-2007

Morning

Natanya translating.

7,30 – 8.30 There were hardly an lines of cars or people. We were so glad but then the soldiers told us that it was Id El Akcha and so they had no work. There was no one to whom we could give holiday greetings. We left when the soldiers asked us politely to move off as they were going to carry out an exercise.

A question about the discrimination between Jews and Israeli Arabs.
At the entrance to Israel from Jubara and also at Qalqiliya there is an intention of dividing Arab Israeli cars from those of the Jews. At Qalqiliya there is a sing "Lane for those with special permits"….that is the settlers and another for the other Israelis. It seems that they rely on the accent as to whether to check cars.
Is this so at other places and if so how is the notice written?

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.