Awarta, Beit Iba, Jit, Mon 28.7.08, Afternoon

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Beit Iba

Jit Junction

'Awarta

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Children

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Observers: Yona A., Tamara H. Translator: Charles K.

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Jul-28-2008

Afternoon

Beit Iba. We arrived at 15:00.

Halil met us and said that today they're not being allowed to bring merchandise through.

We witnessed a mini-parliament composed of the porters, four donkeys and one officer smoking a cigarette – from a distance it all looked pastoral.

A young man came over to us complaining that the soldiers refused to let him take through cardboard boxes containing telephone transformers. According to him, they usually let them go through without any problem. This time they made him go to Awarta.

Women went through without being checked, but the documents of the men were sent over to the observation post to be authorized.

Few cars passed through, without undergoing any unusual checks.

We left at 16:30.

16:40 Jit intersection isn't manned.

This report will conclude with a sign we came upon: Welcome to Shvut Ami.

Construction and settlement continues.

The places are expanding.

Location Description

Jit Junction checkpoint

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The checkpoint is located on Route 60 near at the junction with Route 55, near the village of Jit. There was a checkpoint for vehicles passing between the north and south of the West Bank, which was abolished towards 2010. Since then, surprise checkpoints have been set up there from time to time with a police or Border Police vehicle, and vehicles and their passengers are inspected.

May-14-2014

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14.05.14 Jit junction צומת ג'ית

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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.