Beit Iba and roadblocks
Beit Iba & roadblocks, Tuesday 18.7.06 AMObservers: Shlomit S, Elinoar B (reporting)07:30-09:30 – The long-suffering taxi-drivers complain the soldiers don’t let them enter Nablus although they have valid permits to do so. Mickey Fisher is dealing with the matter vis-a-vis the Humanitarian Center of the army. The checkpoint today is crowded and slow-moving. The soldiers are nervous & suspicious after last night’s incident in Nablus. “Irja Lawara “(move back) seems to be the order of the day. An MP sergeant screams the loudest. Older men and women are passed without inspection, but scores of young men are being pushed back repeatedly. “Why?” some ask. “There should be order” is the answer, and once even “It is less dangerous for me”. There is a new ritual: the ID is passed on, the man told to move back then forward again to fetch his paper. A man carrying a briefcase seems suspicious to the checking soldier. “Why are you shaking?” he asks a few times. Eventually the man catches on. “Are you afraid?” “Yes”. On 57/60 we encounter a roadblock (going north) both on our there and back.
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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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