Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Tuesday, 30.08.05, PMObservers: Raheli B-A., Horit H.-P., Fathiah A, Hannah C. (reporting)16:40 Detainees: two female students from Kufr Bara in Israel who are studying at An-Najah University. They say that the entered Nablus legally in the morning, after they had shown their blue IDs. The law, of course, is against them: The State of Israel is worried about guaranteeing the safety of Arab girls in traditional dress who, so it seems, run the risk of being murdered by inhabitants of Nablus; therefore, they were arrested on their way out. G., from the Humanitarian Hotline explains that they have committed a criminal offense and, if the police have already been summoned – he cannot do anything about their case. Meanwhile, it happens that one of the detainees is asthmatic and the dust from the nearby quarries is causing her breathing difficulties. A telephone call alerts Dalia Basa and G., from the Hotline. A soldier arrives from the base and tries to help her. At 17:30 the girls are released, without any visit from the police.Meanwhile, the checkpoint commander and his staff do not respond at all to our requests and turn their backs on us. Our warnings (quite angry and persistent) concerning the situation of this girl arouse a certain amount of amusement and, finally, a response: “Why doesn’t she say anything herself, in stead of just you?” And to the telephone, “She seems to have asthma.”…17:45 We leave. The leaflets from the Association for Civil Rights, “Rights”, in Arabic, are snatched up eagerly by the people in the kiosk and next to the taxi stand. The roadblock at Shavey Shomron is operative: no one comes in or goes out, it is a “closed military zone” since the disengagement (according to the soldiers).
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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