Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Tuesday, 4.4.06 PM Observers: Biria L., Amit Y.B. Nur B. (reporting) Jubarra and Anabta checkpoints14:00 Jubarra checkpoint empty. 14:10 Anabta, about 5 vehicles, movement at the checkpoint. We didn’t get out of our car.17:45 Anabta, the checkpoint is empty. Beit Iba 14:20 Arrived at Beit Iba. The checkpoint relatively empty. Leaving Nablus is prohibited for men from 15-30, and for public transportation. Private cars are allowed through. The humanitarian line is open and working well in both directions. The vehicle inspection is very strict, so a long line of vehicles is formed, about 15. No detainees in the shed during our whole shift. The soldiers generally working quietly and politely. 16:00 Crowding in the humanitarian line. After some criticism, the DCO appoints the addition of another soldier to work in the line. As soon as the soldier is added, the waiting in line shortened from 2 hours to several minutes.
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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