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Beit Iba

Place: Beit Iba Sarra
Observers: Ruthie C.,Maya M.,Netta A.,Elinoar,Noa
Mar-08-2005
| Morning

Beit Iba Tuesday 8.3.05 AMObservers: Ruthie C., Maya M., Netta A., Elinoar (reporting), Noa (Elinoar’s guest)06:45 – 09:00In Beit Iba nobody is stopped or checked out, no detainees. The reserve unit is still there. It seems that all the action, all the harassment, has moved for now to the rolling checkpoints. This is also what the local people tell us. Two of those rolling checkpoints we passed on our way here. We decide to tour the surrounding roads. At the exit from Beit Iba to Road 60 cars and busses are stopped, people are told to get out. By “people” I mean Palestinians, of course. At Jit intersection there is another rolling checkpoint. We turn left to Sarra, drive up the hill and meet a group of bored reserve soldiers near the red sign that says we’re at the entrance into a Palestinian authority controlled village. All this beauty, rolling hills, early-spring blooming, and the gashes made by the apartheid roads, the fortified settlements and the manic building.

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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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