Beit Iba, Thu 6.11.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Shoshana Z., Nina S. (reporting) Translator: Charles K.

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Nov-6-2008

Morning

Beit Iba, Thursday, 6.11.08, morning

8:40 Beit Iba – About ten cars at the entrance to the
town, being checked pretty quickly. No inspections of people entering on
foot. A pickup truck trying to leave is turned back. Another pickup at the
entrance is turned back and drives off toward Qucin. It isn’t clear whether
it arrived from their earlier; it looks like it came from Dir Sharaf.

People on foot go out quickly.

A bus arrives from Nablus
– all the young men have to get out, and their ID cards are checked. A bag is
removed from the bus and its contents opened onto the road for inspection. The
bus, that’s also inspected, continues on its way after about 10 minutes.

9:30 Women in Blue and White showed up, and we left.

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.