Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Tuesday, 13.9.05, AMObservers: Ruti C, Shlomit S, Netta A, Maya S, Ella M, Elinoar B (reporting)A quiet day, no roadblocks en route. Shavei Shomron: The passage to the north of the west bank is still closed. This means people who live there have to go round, it takes them about an hour and a half to reach Nablus. Beit Iba is run fairly efficiently. A. the DCO is very proud of it. Ostensibly there is an improvement in comparison to the situation of last year – ostensibly, because the regular checkpoints are only the tip of the iceberg. What about the barriers, roadblocks, rolling checkpoints, and worst of all the atrocities that take place in the villages? In the detainees’ enclosure sits a young man. “A security matter” is all the answer we get from A., from the Humanitarian Hotline. According to this young man he is being harassed like this every day, but various efforts to confirm this fail. He does not remember number of his confiscated ID. By the time we leave he’s still there.
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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