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Beit Iba

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Maya M,Elinoar B
Jul-25-2006
| Morning

Beit Iba, Tuesday 25.7.06 AM Observers: Maya M, Elinoar B (reporting) Endless lines. It takes 10-20 minutes to pass, quicker than last week, because 3 soldiers do the checking at the same time. Then at nine AM the lines suddenly dwindle. Exit from Nablus is denied to 15-35-year-olds according to the checkpoint commander. Young men who mistakenly stand in the “humanitarian” line (for women & the elderly, that is over 45) are sent back to wait anew in the “correct” line. “You are humiliating me,” says a slightly younger man angrily. One of the soldiers yells incessantly “move back, move back” in a kind of a conditioned reflex. We don’t encounter any roadblocks, but our passenger Zachariah (see Jubara report) tells us there are 2 such roadblocks going south, 500 meters apart.

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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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