Beit Iba, Thu 27.11.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Zeviah S., Rachel A. (reporting) Chana S. translating

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Nov-27-2008

Morning

08.25 Beit IbaRoutine. A children’s sport group pass through with sports clothes. The soldiers are curious about what kind of sport they play and how fast they run. The soldiers are interested and impressed. Perhaps they should have checkpoint tournaments!
In general, those passing towards Nablus are checked sporadically. The soldier holds a long list of ‘wanted.’ No queues of pedestrians - or of cars of which there are few.Apart from the fact that this checkpoint exists there is nothing to report.
We are in the habit of bringing clothes to distribute to those present and there is already a demand. Everything proceeds according to routine – the only thing that changes is the soldiers themselves.This is an unnecessary checkpoint

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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.