Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Sunday, 23.7.06 AMObservers: Naomi K, Orna P (reporting) 08:30 – 09:30Intolerable line into Nablus – 300 people waiting.Ten detainees.Among the detainees: a doctor from Nablus who wants to take a laptop from the other side of the checkpoint, a computer man who works in Tulkarm had come for a visit to Nablus and cannot go back to work, a dry cleaner with a torn ID – according to him a resident of Fundook, but the soldiers claim he lives in Nablus – a released convict resident in Jaffa who came to collect money in Nablus.The soldiers are not in control of the situation. We phone the Humanitarian Centre who promise help that does not arrrive. At 09:15 we see the DCO vehicle passing by, while he looks out and drives on. On the phone to the Centre we are told that the DCO claims there is no problem at Beit Iba. While we are there the line gets shorter, but does not vanish.We left behind us frustrated detainees. 09:45 Jit Junction – 39 cars waiting in line.
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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Jit Junction
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The checkpoint is located on Route 60 near at the junction with Route 55, near the village of Jit. There was a checkpoint for vehicles passing between the north and south of the West Bank, which was abolished towards 2010. Since then, surprise checkpoints have been set up there from time to time with a police or Border Police vehicle, and vehicles and their passengers are inspected.
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