Azzun, Beit Iba, Jit, Mon 18.2.08, Morning
Natanya translating.
General: Segregation of young men from Tulkarm and the area of Jenin. Even more than usual this complicates the lives of the people.
7.00 Azun- The western opening is open but the main entrance is closed also to pedestrians. Jit is open.
7.25 Beit Iba- Because of the segregation all IDs are checked but women and older men are not checked usually after the intervention of the DCO representative.
A group of young men are gathered at the entrance. Some of them are from the village of Tolet, south of Qalqiliya and they cannot go through. The commander says that they have a list of the residents there even though there is no segregation of the residents of Qalqiliya and Jayous. It seems that contrary to what is usually the situation the commander knows the geography of the area but has to go according to the lists. Nina phones the centre where she is told that the village should not be on the list and that this will be corrected. Not immediately of course but as it will go up the line of command. There are about 14 detainees. All had tried to bypass and were being punished by being kept for a couple of hours and while we are there their numbers grow to 18 . Every now and again the soldiers run to the hills to "hunt" those trying to slip by. Everyone knows the rules of the game and those who are caught know they have tried and not succeeded and go smiling to the enclosure.
9.30 We leave and the commander says he will free them at 9.45.
'Azzun
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Azoun (updated February 2019)
A Palestinian town situated in Area B (under civil Palestinian control and Israeli security control),
on road 5 between Nablus and Qalqiliya, east of Nabi Elias village. The inhabitants are allowed to construct and improve infrastructures. The Separation Fence has confiscated lands belonging to the town's people. In 2018 olive tree groves owned by one of its inhabitants were confiscated for the sake of paving a road to bypass Nabi Elias. Azoun population numbers 13,000, its economic state dire. Its infrastructures are poor, neglect and poverty rampant. In the meantime, the town council has completed paving an internal road for the inhabitants' welfare.
Because of its proximity to the Jewish settler-colony of Karnei Shomron and its outposts, the town suffers the intense presence of the Israeli army, especially at nighttime: soldiers enter homes, arrest suspects, trash the house and sometimes ruin it, as they do in numerous places in the West Bank. At times a checkpoint closes the entrance to the town, so no one can come in or get out.
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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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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Jit Junction
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The checkpoint is located on Route 60 near at the junction with Route 55, near the village of Jit. There was a checkpoint for vehicles passing between the north and south of the West Bank, which was abolished towards 2010. Since then, surprise checkpoints have been set up there from time to time with a police or Border Police vehicle, and vehicles and their passengers are inspected.
Yehudith LevinMay-14-201414.05.14 Jit junction צומת ג'ית
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