Azzun, Beit Iba, Tue 27.11.07, Afternoon
Beit Iba -14.00 – 17.00
The building is continuing, the noise is unbearable, the passage through is very difficult and we stand in an uncomfortable place so as to watch. 10 cars, mainly trucks at the entrance to Nablus. At the other checkpint two checking areas and a humanitarian line. The pressure is great and because of the building the exit is allowed with intervals which makes the waiting even longer and more difficult.
5 detainees who tried to slip through and who are freed after about half an hour.
The commander was impatient with us and did not allow us to stand near the turnstiles. When we asked to speak to the representative of the DCO it appeared that he was helping with the checking and the commander did not allow us to speak to him.
Towards the end of our shift a bus driver came up to us and said that he had been waiting for three hours in the lines. We managed to get to the DCO representative who promised to deal with this and truly the line began to move a bit faster.
16.45 10 cars at the entrance to Nablus.
Azzun was open.
'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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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