Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Thursday, 8.9.05, PMObservers: Lee A., Dana S., Yardena T., Dorit H. (reporting)16:35 Very few cars in either direction, traffic is flowing. The checkpoint for pedestrians is almost empty in both directions, not clear why. We remain about ¼ hour and then leave.17:10 On our way out, immediately after we passed Kfar Funduk, we met up with a roadblock made up of a military jeep and two soldiers next to the left turn to the village whose name is Jinsafut. Lee and I get out of the car and approach to find out what is happening. The soldier who is inspecting tells us “there is an alert” and that he only checks IDs to ascertain that whoever enters is actually a resident of the village, and he doesn’t detain people or check packages. We watch for a few minutes to see that this is so. (The second soldier, a reserve soldier full of hatred, for Arabs and us, tries to expel us, argue with us and prevent the other soldier from talking with us).
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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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Jinsafut
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JinsafutA village in Areas B and C. Much of its cultivation area has been declared a nature reserve where no agriculture or construction is permitted, and many olive groves under its ownership are located beyond the Separation Barrier. In addition to frequent demolitions and night raids, the village's olive orchards are contaminated by chemical wastewater from the nearby Karnei Shomron settlement.
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