Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Thursday, 21.7.05, AMObservers: Nura R, Ella M, Inbal R (reporting)Beit Iba 9-30-11.00 – 17 cars waiting to enter Nablus and a wait of an hour and ten minutes. The driver says the exit from Nablus is slower, at least two hours. Another driver says that on Tuesday it was much worse. A taxi driver complains that on Tuesday at Zaatra, soldiers ordered him to let off his woman passenger at 9 pm in the middle of the road. Another driver claims that the problems at the checkpoint began before the terror attack in Netanya when a new unit of soldiers took over at Beit Iba. An ambulance is deliberately delayed when the driver refuses to switch off the motor for the check, claiming that the patient needs the air conditioning. Women are obliged to empty out the contents of sacks they are carrying but there is only one chair to put them on. A woman scowls at a soldier when baby clothes fall to the ground. The soldier is infuriated and forces her to put the clothes in piles on a long narrow strip of concrete. A German national of Arab origin is not granted a permit for a rented car with yellow licence plates after waiting in line for two hours. The German consul says he will come to the checkpoint. Meanwhile the soldiers want the driver to move the car back but he has no intention of waiting in line again. Nora tries to intercede without success. Soldiers and Palestinians are close to boiling point. A young man clutching a hoe harangues us about the uselessness of MachsomWatch.Jubara 11.30 – Piles of burning garbage emitting thick smoke. About twenty cars waiting to enter Tulkarm.
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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