‘Azzun, Beit Iba, Tue 28.10.08, Morning
(It’s raining)
7.40
The road block at Jubara is closed. It opens after inspection of documents and MachsomWatch tag. When we enter a soldier calls his friends telling them to be on guard.
At roadblock 753 Palestinians are stopped for inspection. When we asked why, the answer is – because of warnings of a terrorist attack. On Monday, 27/10 Palestinians were not permitted to pass.
Road block Ar Ras is quiet.
At the exit from Jubara the soldier informs us that Hamdan cannot enter the area– we inform Elisheva
8.00
Anabta – graffiti “Arabs are whores”
On the way to Beit Iba there is a sign with the words “Death to the Arabs”.
8.10
It is quiet at Beit Iba. Soldiers are waiting leisurely – it is their last day at the checkpoints and they are happy to go home.
(The weather is clearing up)
9.30
We leave – At ‘Azzun’ Atma? a large heap of earth
At Qalqiliya the checkpoint is quiet – there are hardly any people passing through
Just the same frustrating routine
'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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