Beit Iba, Tue 6.11.07, Morning
Beit Iba 07:10 – 08:40
A cloud of dust welcomes us, visibility is nil. The quarry is working in full steam. It is hard to stand at the checkpoint today.
Due to the construction, the checking takes place on the road, where the vehicles exiting Nablus pass, a rather dangerous situation.
Lively traffic at The pedestrian checkpoint, but unlike last week no lines form despite the fact that all men and some women are checked. ID numbers that appear on the shortlist, or "bingo" in army lingo, are checked and the document is handed back fairly quickly.
The people exiting the city are checked thoroughly as usual, contents of bags spilled on the waiting table, etc.
The vehicle check is rather slow. We timed a truck standing in the middle of the line, it took 15 minutes for him to pass.
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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