Beit Iba, Wed 1.10.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Tags:

Slow passage

DCO (District Coordination Offices)

Passage Restrictions

Maltreatment

Observers:

Mil’at S., Ma’ayan, Efrat, Karin L. (reporting) Translator: Charles K.

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Oct-1-2008

Afternoon

16:50 Beit Iba
Before we even had a chance to park, three men came over to us (drivers?) and said there’s nothing to do in Beit Iba, but there are serious problems in Einav.
After we parked other people also told us the same thing. Nevertheless, we went over to the checkpoint. About 20 people in the shed. One by one they pass through the single inspection lane, with no delays. From time to time a car goes through. We left for Anabta.

17:00 On the way to Anabta, Yehudit Levin told us that Nadim informed her that there are serious problems and long lines there. She also told Tami Cohen, whose dealing with it.

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.