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Beit Iba

Place: Beit Iba Sarra
Observers: Hadassa T,Esti S
Feb-24-2005
| Morning

Beit Iba Thu. 24.2.05 AMObservers: Hadassa T, Esti S. (reporting)The watch also visited Irtah and Jubara.08:00Many vehicles at the checkpoint. Passage is rapid but soldiers surround the checkpoint with cocked weapons aimed at people coming from Nablus. An officer tells us these are their orders. The soldiers arrived at the checkpoint only yesterday. They treated us well and assured us that they were responsive to problems and tried to be understanding. We encountered a problem: there are people with permits to go through Beit Iba but not Sarra. The officer dealt with the problem. A veterinary surgeon whose papers, according to the DCO, were not updated, was allowed through. We left after an hour and a half.

  • 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.  
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  • Sarra

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    • Sarra
      The checkpoint is installed between the Palestinian village of Sera and the district city of Nablus,
      Since 2011, internal barriers Located among the West Bank Israeli settlements have somehow allowed, Palestinian residents to travel and move and reach various Palestinian cities.
      After the terrible massacre by the Hammas on October 7 upon Israelis in the communities around Gaza, internal checkpoints manned by the army were installed to prevent free passage for Palestinians.
      Many restrictions were imposed on the Palestinians in the West Bank. The prevention of movement shuttered the possibility of making a living in Israel. The number of Palestinian attacks by Israeli extremist settlelers increased along with the radicalization of the army against the Palestinians.
      The conduct at the Sera checkpoint is one of the manifestations of the restrictions on all aspects of the Palestinians' lives.

       

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