Beit Iba, Tue 28.10.08, Afternoon

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Yehudit K., Bruria R. (reporting); Natanya translating

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Oct-28-2008

Afternoon

Beit Iba

14.30 Few cars and people at the entrance. There is a humanitarian lane and two ordinary ones. At the checking area women soldiers are sitting. The soldiers and especially the commander were polite and even said please and thank you to the Palestinians.

15.30 There was more traffic of those exiting and cars entering Nablus and the checking was quite fast.

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.