Beit Iba, Thu 17.7.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Tags:

Passage Restrictions

Observers:

Observers: Shoshana Z, Nina S (reporting)

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Jul-17-2008

Morning

translation: L.W

08:15 Beit Iba Checkpoint

Few cars at entrance and exit, fast transit.

A truck loaded with bricks wants in to Nablus, but is sent back. The driver does not have the appropriate documentation. His response to my question, "what will you do," "I will go around through Asira." If it is possible to enter freely by going around, why can’t he enter from here? The gods of the IDF have solutions. Meanwhile, he wastes another hour of driving, another crossing at Anabta Checkpoint, and lost fuel – a natural resource, and more polluted air. Everything costs more...

The pedestrian crossing is fast, with from time to time a wave of transients, but lines that dissolve quickly. Most of the time, three checkers at the entry hut. There are two checking stations at the exit, but the flow is thin.

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.