Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Thursday, 16.3.06 AMObservers: Marina C, Nora R, Yael S (reporting) 10:40 On our way to the checkpoint a number of people stopped to thank us and the organisation for our work – pleasant to hear. The checkpoint is quite empty of people. The soldiers refuse to talk to us. The DCO representative on the spot won’t speak to us, and directs us to the checkpoint commander who is busy checking vehicles, and we can’t get to him. The line of vehicles from Nablus is long. We could not see the end of the line. In the direction of Nablus, no vehicles waiting. There is a tour of commanders in military language, with codes and abbreviations that we don’t recognize. At the end of the tour, the commander takes the officers to meet Adel, in charge of the taxis – who he says is an important figure. 11:15 We leave.
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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