Beit Iba, Wed 8.10.08, Morning

7.00 Beit Iba
Used to going to Huwwara and my car driving like a warhorse, we got to Beit Iba in a roundabout way. After an absence of about a year, the change was obvious in the entire area. The facility itself has been renovated and the road to the checkpoint  and the parking lot were different. Everywhere is more in order. Cars and pedestrians ...what stood out was the lack of lines. The checkpoint was empty. The traffic to Nablus was not checked. At the exit there was checking including taking off belts and parcels but no great delay. The car lane also flowed.

The eve of Yom Kippur did not change the routine. The soldiers say there are no changes either today or tomorrow.

In front of the checkpoint a young man stopped us and said that his brother had been taken by soldiers and they did not know where he was. We put him through by phone to the humanitarian centre and also the Centre for the Defense of the Individual and asked him to let us know if there were further difficulties but he did not get back to us.