Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Wednesday, 5.7.06 AMObservers: Nettie A, Rina Z, Inbal R, Elisheva A (reporting)08:45 – Cessation of Life – hundreds of people, elderly and children, students being examined for summer semester, all crowded in heat and the quarry dust. We couldn’t help anyone, and we did absorb plenty of anger and bitterness. Acquaintances tried to explain to us that no suicide bomber would come through here to Israel…09:35 – the checkpoints open. For the first moments people passed from the west to the entrance to Nablus without inspection, while the exit was held up for a while. The lines organised to perfection.Perhaps the doctor will manage to treat a few patients today, perhaps the students will succeed in registering for another date for exams, and perhaps the grandmother from Nablus will manage to see her grandchildren who have come from Dir Sharaf!Meanwhile, we heard that a terrorist was caught in Qalqiliya area.
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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