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Beit Iba

Place: Beit Iba Sarra
Observers: Lirona,Maya M,Ruthie C,Iris R,Elinoar
Nov-02-2004
| Morning

BEIT IBA, Tuesday 2 October 2004 AMObservers: Lirona, Maya M, Ruthie C, Iris R, Elinoar (reporting)colour=red>We started a bit late, at 07:00, and found everything apparently quiet in Jubara. In Beit Iba, we found a closed checkpoint. A sergeant made no bones about this being part of the infamous “Life-Stopping” procedure. Apparently all Nablus checkpoints were closed, and only serious medical cases and a few doctors were allowed in or out, and that not always. “This to put the fear of God into them, so that they’ll learn their lesson”, we were told, meaning: this is a punishment for yesterday’s bombing [a teenage suicide bomber from the Askar refugee camp near Nablus went to Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market on Monday 1 November where his bomb took the lives of at least three Israelis, with more seriously wounded]. At first, a humane sergeant responded to our requests and allowed a few people to pass, for example two teachers who could not proceed to their school in Sarra and wanted to go back home to Deir Sharaf. But when a really tough second lieutenant appeared – “the high command”, as the soldiers defined him – all such gestures were stopped. A family in mourning (the father had died in Nablus and today was supposed to be a day for condolence visits)was not allowed to pass and the army’s “humanitarian” hotline concurred in that decision. After a few extremely depressing and frustrating hours, we left for home.

  • 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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    • Sarra
      The checkpoint is installed between the Palestinian village of Sera and the district city of Nablus,
      Since 2011, internal barriers Located among the West Bank Israeli settlements have somehow allowed, Palestinian residents to travel and move and reach various Palestinian cities.
      After the terrible massacre by the Hammas on October 7 upon Israelis in the communities around Gaza, internal checkpoints manned by the army were installed to prevent free passage for Palestinians.
      Many restrictions were imposed on the Palestinians in the West Bank. The prevention of movement shuttered the possibility of making a living in Israel. The number of Palestinian attacks by Israeli extremist settlelers increased along with the radicalization of the army against the Palestinians.
      The conduct at the Sera checkpoint is one of the manifestations of the restrictions on all aspects of the Palestinians' lives.

       

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