Beit Iba, Shave Shomron, Mon 23.2.09, Morning

Place:

Beit Iba

Shave Shomron

Observers:

Ronnie S., Francis T., Osnat R. (reporting); Natanya translating

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Feb-23-2009

Morning

7.40
Beit Iba

No line of cars but there is a dogtrainer. It seems that because of the rain cars are only checked from the outside, Pedestrians at the entrance are not checked. At the exit as usual it is hard to see people taking off their belts and shoes and it is not clear why. The rain streams and flows towards the pedestrians. Nabil, the DCO representative, introduces himself. There is also an apprentice DCO. From him we understand that the checkpoint at Beit Iba will remain but it will only be for cars and pedestrians will not be checked. We hope so.

8.45
Shave Shomron

There are soldiers but as they also tell us they do not stop and check cars.

Location Description

Shave Shomron

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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

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.