Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Wednesday, 21.6.06 AMObservers: Nettie A, Rina Z (reporting) 08:30 B little vehicle traffic (4-5 in each direction). Many pedestrians, mostly young, in the direction of Nablus. Summer semester has begun. The check is quick. Women and elderly are not checked for the most part.On the other hand, coming out from Nablus the inspection is very slow. For each person passing through, first their baggage is checked. Afterwards a Military Policeman types all the ID data into a computer (including women), and also checks against a packed page of wanted ID numbers. In the morning, when the flow is not too great, it does not bother all that much.When we arrive, there is a detained taxi driver, whose keys have been taken Before we could complain to the checkpoint commander, the keys were returned. He was released after half an hour. 09:00 B another detainee. Every identity card is checked against a giant list of wanted men (in my estimate, more than a hundred…). The list only includes the last four digits of the ID number. So anyone whose last four digits happen to match those of a suspect will be detained at any checkpoint while his full number is sent for checking. He was released after 10 minutes.The checkpoint commander, a second lieutenant, runs everything efficiently and courteously. He sends the Military Policeman to eat, and checks in his stead.The orders are similar to recent times: exit prohibited for Nablus men between 15-25. A bus with children going to a swimming pool is stopped and two 15 year olds are taken off, then returned. All vehicles, going in or coming out of Nablus, must have a special permit. Taxi drivers ask when the road to Jenin via Shavei Shomron will be opened, because the journey there is on bad and long roads (the road through Shavei Shomron is Route 60 B the main road of the West Bank).
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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