Anabta, Beit Iba
Anabta, Beit Iba, Sunday AM, 5 March 2006 Watchers: Naomi K., Sara B., Orna P. (reporting)On the road between Jubara and Beit Iba, many pedestrians are coming down from the villages on non-existent paths.09:30 – AnabtaA very long line in both directions.Those passing through are asked to raise their shirts and turn around (their faces evidence considerable embarrassment). [Ed. note: possibly required only of men.]The checking process is slow and not very efficient. One of the soldiers is smoking while checking. The soldiers are relating toughly to the passersby,, and it seems that they fear a terror or shooting strike at the checkpoint. One of them announces: “Here come the women from Herzliya Pituach [Ed. note: a well-off Israeli suburb] with their jeeps, thinking they can tell us what to do.”We phoned brigade to ask for intervention. Within a short time the traffic block opened up.10:30 – Beit IbaFew people. Seems that all are passing. The quarantine [i.e. cutting off geographic areas] continues, but it appears that the residents are aware of it and don’t come to the checkpoint.Unlike in the Tulkarm area, here the soldiers refuse to talk with us.
Beit Iba
See all reports for this place-
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
-