Beit Iba, Sun 16.3.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Tags:

Slow passage

Observers:

Yael A. Rachel H. Natanya translating.

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Mar-16-2008

Morning

8.10 Beit Iba.
A long line of cars waiting to enter Nablus and the checking is careful and the waiting is long. There are even more pedestrians and it seems that only women and men over 45 are allowed through and the young people hardly move. They say this has been so for a long time and the soldiers will not explain why. We phoned the humanitarian centre and in a few minutes things began to move and soon the line was soon finished. We do not know if our phone call brought this about. At 9.00 we left.

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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.