Azzun, Beit Iba, Jit, Tue 3.6.08, Morning
Natanya translating.
Beit Iba, 6.30 – 8.20 On the way there we see a relatively short line of workers and cars at the Eliyahu crossing and at the checkpoint of Qalqiliya. Azun we were happy to see was open. At the crossroads of Jit Israeli flags still fly proudly in honour of Yom Haatzmaut.
When we got to Beit Iba a group of young men had just been checked and warned. Everyone is standing far from the red line which is some metres from where the soldiers is checking them on the list. Because there is no separate line of the women they do not know where to stand and so some do so at the end of the line and others try to pass in various other directions. The Palestinians stand aside and let the women pass . At the checking area there are more soldiers who seem to know what they are dong and are calm. When a line forms the commander comes to help or lets the older people through without checking. When we leave there is little movement evidently because of the student holidays. At the entrance to Nablus are also few people. Belts are taken off and the traffic streams. Few cars which pass steadily.
'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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