Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Thursday, 30.6.05, AMObservers: Esti S, Ruti V, Hadassa T (reporting)7.30 – generally speaking quiet and rapid passage for both pedestrians and vehicles. The soldiers are fair and businesslike. A. of the DCO is welcoming to us and to Palestinians. Two women are detained in the compound. The DCO man says one of them came with an ID which was not hers. After a short check this turns out to be not true and they are released. A young divorced woman appeals to us. Her husband won’t pay alimony and she doesn’t know what to do. The DCO man doesn’t know the telephone number of UNRWA. We call home and ask someone to check their number on the Internet and receive the number of the Gaza representative. There they give us the number of the Jerusalem and Nablus offices. We hand them on in the hope that they will help.9.00 – on the way back a checkpoint on the way to Anabta. A long line of cars.
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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Jerusalem
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The places in East Jerusalem which are visited routinely by MachsomWatch women are Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah. During the month of Ramadan, also the Old City and its environs are monitored.
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