Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Monday, 1.8.05, AMObservers: Ella M. Roni S. Naomi L. Herzliah A. (reporting). 7.45 Before Deir Sharaf we were stopped by soldiers who wanted to know our destination. The pedestrian lane was not full. Groups of people arrived and were checked quickly on a list and the soldiers acted decently. At the exit from Nablus there were not many people. Cars were very carefully checked and it took about half an hour of waiting. Here too the soldiers acted decently and well. When we left a Palestinian told us that the soldiers had told them that at the end of the week there would be a total closure on the entire area …that they would not be able to leave their villages until after the evacuation. Will the same closure apply to the settlers?
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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