Beit Iba, Tue 23.9.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Tags:

DCO (District Coordination Offices)

Observers:

Nurit W., Yael P., Rachel A. (reporting) Translator: Charles K.

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Sep-23-2008

Morning

9:05 Beit Iba

Nothing unusual. Few people leave. Mostly people enter. The soldiers appear pretty indifferent. The DCO representative tells us that, as a result of his intervention, they’ve stopped checking people entering Nablus (something which made no sense at all, since it is possible to enter Nablus via Huwwara without any difficulty).

Someone comes over to us to ask for help arranging a new pass. They’re not letting him get one, without any reason and with no explanation.

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.