Beit Iba
BEIT IBA Monday 18 April 2005 AM Observers: Ruhama, Rachel, Leah, Edna colour=red>The atmosphere at this checkpoint was much calmer, and people passed through smoothly , with only short delays.Rachel and Ruhama tried to compile a list of taxi-drivers in order to appeal to the High Court against their not being permitted to bring passengers up to the checkpoint and thence to Nablus; the bus drivers have been given preference, and this has hurt the taxi-drivers’ livelihood. But they were not prepared to endanger whatever income they have by revealing their names. They fear that they will be harassed even more. Some spoke of the possibility that from next Saturday they, too, will be allowed through to Nablus. This should be followed up! (Perhaps the privilege will be extended to only a few, who ‘pay’ indirectly for the permission). Leah brought five bags of clothing, which were received gratefully (though with a some embarrassment and confusion) by a cripple whom we’d met here previously.On the way home at 09:15 we gave a ride to the man whose two sons were shot in their own home, and who are now in Tel Hashomer hospital.
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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