Beit Iba & Shavey Shomron
Beit Iba & Shavey Shomron, Tuesday 28.2.06 AM Observers: Ruti C, Shlomit S, Elinoar B (reporting) In Beit Iba checkpoint the traffic today is relatively brisk but the checking-out is cursory. A soldier on his way out with a cocked rifle mutters automatically “Irjah Lawara” (move back), and the men do just that.The vehicle line is slower. A domineering soldier takes care to show who is the boss, detains ambulances for no special reason. Van drivers coming out of Nablus are told to take out their load. One of them, carrying Tyres, takes them all out goodnaturedly. The soldier watches from afar. Then the man is told to go back to Nablus. To us, watching from the side, it seems like cruelty. The answer would probably be “hot alert”.Near Shavey Shomron the wall is almost finished. Peeping through we see that the inside (the settlement side) is decorated with pastoral landscape paintings. The outside is drab and ugly.We go up the new road to Shavey Shomron and come to a dead end: a military camp. No roadblocks today up to Anabta.
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.
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