Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Thursday, 20.4.06 AMObservers: Hadassa, Esthi, Ruthi (reporting) 07:15 – 08:30 at Beit Iba the well known restrictions: Residents of Jenin and Tulkarm are not allowed to pass in the direction of Nablus. Residents of Nablus between 15-30 are unable to exit Nablus. In the ever more severe closure, the workers of the carpentry shop at the entrance to Beit Iba are not allowed to go to work. Two of them try to bypass the soldiers from the side, but are quickly caught and put in the detention hut. The turnstiles are not functioning properly, and are hampering transit. We suggested to the checkpoint commander that he should dismantle them. The check is very thorough against a list of names. Passage of vehicles from the direction of Nablus is very slow.An ambulance with doctors and nurses tries to bypass the line and is returned to the back of the line since there are no patients in it, only staff. A hard morning, frustrating, annoying. The brigade commander says that harsher restrictions can be expected.
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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