Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Tuesday 4.7.06 AMObservers: Shlomit S., Ruthi K., Elinoar B. (reporting)07:30-08:45In Beit Iba passage is fast. Most of the time only young men are being checked. Some men are detained to be checked further by the computer, and released after a few minutes. One young man complains he is being detained every day, asks for a phone number of the Center of the Defence of the Individual.A strange sight: when the line of men stepped too close to the post to a soldier’s liking, he started walking in front of them, not uttering a word, while they stepped back slowly as one man.Catch 22: how can a taxi-driver renew his permit in Nablus when he is not allowed to drive into the city? The best we can do is suggest he join a driver who does have such a permit. Regretfully, we can offer less and less practical help. On our way to Anabta (separate report) we encounter a road-block for cars going south near Dir Sharaf (Shomron Intersection).
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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