Beit Iba, Tue 22.7.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

יYehudit K., Dvorka (reporting) Guest:Rivka R. Translator: Charles K.

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Jul-22-2008

Morning

07:20 Beit Iba – A line of 60 people waiting to enter Nablus. Two soldiers checked their ID cards. From time to time, when only one soldier was engaged in checking, and the line lengthened, we reminded/requested that more soldiers be added, and that was done, almost without a word (it seemed to us they'd also heard and read about the shooting of the Palestinian near Na'ilin…). Only a few people left Nablus in the direction of Beit Iba. They were checked more carefully. There were no lines of cars in either direction.

Towards 09:00 am the line thinned out.

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.