Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Saturday, 20.8.05, AMObservers: Nurit S. Inbal and Adina A. (reporting)On our way we encountered three rolling checkpoints which a policeman explained to us were to stop settler infiltrators to the area of North Shomron. The first one was after Qedumim and the northern turning and no military presence. Shortly after that we encountered a new settlement with a handwritten sign …Nadav settlement….on the back of the tent. There was only one young man with a big scull cap.Beit Iba 2 detainees, dressed in the uniform of Palestinian police but without documents. The one was shortly released, the other detained for a longer period because he had IDF army boots. We kept asking and eventually the captain told us he did not know how to react and had called the police. The young man said he had bought them in the market place of Jenin. In the main both traffic and pedestrians passed smoothly but because of the closure it was not large. Anabta: ..lmpossible to go into Tulkarm…the pedestrian way was difficult and slow and barbed wire had been placed there. An angry man got out of his car and told us that he had been on the way to Tulkarm through Beit Jala but at Anbata he was not allowed to pass and had to go through Jubara, hoping that there he would be able to pass. He told us to look after ourselves but said he doubted that anyone took an notice of our reports even if they bothered to read them
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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