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Beit Iba, Tue 2.9.08, Afternoon

Place: Beit Iba
Tags: Detainees Identification Cards (ID)
Observers: Dalia F., Dvorka A. (reporting); Translator: Charles K.
Sep-02-2008
| Afternoon

Very light traffic at the checkpoint.  The soldiers explain that it's because inspections at the Ganot checkpoint have been eased as a gesture to Abu Mazen for Ramadan, and also that fewer people are going through because of the fast.

3:00  Beit Iba.  The shed where people wait is almost empty.  One detainee, whose ID number was on the short list.  A., the checkpoint commander, says he'll shorten the length of his detention as part of the concessions for Ramadan.  People entering Nablus are checked randomly, and very superficially.  Inspections in the other directions are conducted as usual, but there's no line because few people are going through.

  • 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 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.  
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