Beit Iba, Wed 17.12.08, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Observers:

Nura R. Michal B. Hana P. (reporting); Natanya translating.

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Dec-17-2008

Morning

9:30 Beit Iba

At the beginning there is no one at the entrance. Later a soldier who had evidently left his post arrived. From inside a hut a military policewoman comes out and asks us to leave the checkpoint "because it is dangerous for us." We show her the red line which is inside the checkpoint and which we loath.

Now all the soldiers come back from breakfast and all the posts are manned.

The checking in the x-ray device: One man must take off his shoes in all this dust.

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.