Beit Iba
Beit Iba, 8.6.2006, Thursday afternoon, E.Observers: Hanna A. Rina D. Rachel H. (reporting)Natanya translating.16.00-16.45 Summary. A long line and a waiting period of up to two hours approximately to cars coming from Nablus as a result of a very careful check as a result of the suicide bomber with the belt of dynamite. On the other hand pedestrians passed freely.16.00 we were horrified to see about 50 cars waiting to leave Nablus and which seemed to be stationery. One of the drivers said he had already been waiting 70 minutes. We asked a driver in the opposite direction from Nablus about the situation there and he said he had passed within 5 minutes. A soldier whom we questioned refused to answer and said we should speak to the captain. The commnader said that the previous day a wanted man had passed at Biet Iba and there were many alerts concering cars and therefore the check was in a different direction….in both directions as from half an hour ago. He said that the situation was not an ordinary one and that the last two weeks there had been little pressure and that there was no way to hurry the checking because of a lack of manpower. The pedestrians passed without waiting and with no limitations.16.30 A truck driver taking a load from the nearby quarry to the village of Beit Iba, a distance of one kilomitere waited an hour. A taxi driver told us how he spent his day at the checkpoint …two hours at Bila (north wet to Anabta) in a line of 77 cars, an hour at Anabta and two hours now at Beit Iba. He said that when one got to the checkpoint there was no checking.16.40 Hanna spoke to the brigade commander Haliva and he said that there was an alert since the previous day about a suicide bomber. 16.45 We left Beit Iba where still was a terribly long line of cars and went on to Jubara and Irtach.
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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