Beit Iba, Sun 28.9.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Ruthie Z.W., Alix W (reporting)

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Sep-28-2008

Afternoon

On the way to Beit Iba we passed Shuvat Ami and saw people around the
house as well as on the hill opposite, more activity seemed to be going
on.

Beit Iba

14:15 – The Hawwash Brothers we closed today, not many taxis, and at
the CP no vehicles on both sides and no pedestrians in any of the
queues. We note an occasional vehicle and few people pass the CP.

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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.