Beit Iba, Thu 4.9.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Nura R., Channa P. (reporting); Translator: Charles K.

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Sep-4-2008

Morning

8:15 Itzik, the brigade commander, has ordered, in honor of Ramadan, that ID's won't be checked against lists; just make sure that people have ID's. That's so people will be able to go through again when they leave, because then they're checked against lists.

The checkpoint commander sounds dissatisfied with the order. Because of the order, the lines are shorter.

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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.