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Beit Iba

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Ruti C,Elinoar B
Mar-28-2006
| Morning

Beit Iba, Tuesday, 28.3.06, AM Observers: Ruti C, Elinoar B (reporting)Guest: MashaThe pedestrian traffic in the checkpoint is lively, the demeanor of the soldiers familiar: “Irja lawara” [move back], “Wahad wahad” [one by one], “Nobody will pass till…”, all this to an obedient and quiet crowd. In the central (quicker) lane only forty-year-olds can pass. “Maybe 38?” a younger man tries his luck half jokingly. The men are checked vis-a-vis the lists, bags are opened. Women pass freely.On the exit (from Nablus) side parcels and bags are checked more thoroughly (from afar) and the men are demanded to perform the “Qalandiya Dance”: open the jacket, lift the flaps, turn around in a pirouette.

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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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