Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Tuesday 25.4.06 AMObservers: Shlomit S, Ruti C, Elinoar B (reporting), Jonathan (a guest from Tel Aviv), Benedicte (a guest from Belgium). The road from Jubara to Beit Iba is free of roadblocks today – both on our way there and back. On our way from parking to the checkpoint, we hear the story about the student who tried to bypass the checkpoint and was swept in the flood yesterday and whose body was found down near Shavei Shomron. In Beit Iba the lines are very long and excruciatingly slow. An Arabic-speaking soldier re-educates the waiting people. They move back, stand quietly – and then the line moves faster. Elderly men (Hadj, the soldiers were apparently instructed to call them politely) and most women pass with hardly any checking at all. In the detainees enclosure 4 young men are waiting. They claim not to know why they are there. They know very well, the checkpoint commander says. They are soon released one by one. The vehicle line is also very long and very slow. Many young men are sent back: men 15-30 old from Jenin, Tul Karm etc. are not allowed into Nablus. As for getting out, all men 15-30 old living there are to remain imprisoned in Nablus. For how long? Who knows.
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 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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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