Beit Iba, Tue 25.3.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Shlomit S, Elinoar B (reporting)

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Mar-25-2008

Morning

07:30-08:15 Beit Iba.

Haze, dust from the quarry.

The checkpoint is manned by reserve soldiers who as usual are more relaxed than the regulars. No lines form, neither pedestrian nor vehicular. The people entering Nablus pass without checking. The ones coming out put on their belts that were taken off before passing the beeping magnometers.

At this time the checkpoint usually teems with students. Not today, for some reason.

Carts (donkey and hand) are checked thoroughly. __._,_.___

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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.