Beit Iba surroundings, Jit
Beit Iba surroundings, Jit, Saturday 13.5.2006 AM Observers. Michal P. and Eilat Natanya translating. Road 60 in the middle of the way between crossroads 57 and 60 to crossroads of Jit. 8.44 73 cars from north to south between two hours to two and a half.DCO Shira. Next to the petrol station 4 soldiers, 2 in a car and 2 checking.The commander says, “ I am not the chief of staff, there are hot alerts, etc.” “I have just sent someone to deal with the humanitarians.” 8.50 Two DCOs arrive, Anwar and Zachi. Anwar says it is to help with the pressure.Signs of life of the soldiers manning the post are shown by lines of aluminum packaging with the remains of food at the sides of the road. 9.15 Another telephone to Shira at the humanitarian centre.11 young people from Tulkarm and Jenin are taken down for their bus after having been thoroughly checked. 2 ambulances pass quickly. The pressure is relieved and the checking hastened. 9.37 There are now 27 cars in line waiting about 25 minutes. We leave Beit Iba.Beit Iba. 9.48. In the easterly direction there is one truck from the quarry. In the westerly direction a driver tells us he did not have to wait at all. It seems no one is allowed to pass. Few pedestrians in either direction. Men between 16-30 can not pass in any direction. In the hut are two detained students who had been on their way form Nablus to Jenin. One of them entered the enclosure of his own volition because he was not allowed to pass. The other was freed about an hour after he was detained and sent back to Nablus.10.16Two captains of the DCO on road 60 arrive to relieve the pressure and we leave at 10.50
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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