Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Sunday morning, 25.3.2007.Observers: Zvia S. Rachel A. (reporting)Natanya translating. Beit Iba. 8.15 2 detainees, one of whom is soon freed and goes on his way to work at a factory in Bidiya.The second is about 20 and has been in jail in Israel for a year for throwing stones. The soldier who hears this does not believe it and opens his eyes wide. Zvia invites him to come with her to the military jails and see that is happening there. The young man is on his way to visit his brother of 12 who is in jail for a similar offence. While we are at the checkpoint his ID is being checked. It is found that he is wanted and the secret service come to take him away at about 12.30. He only wanted to visit his brother but has fallen into this hole. Who knows what will happen to him now? Oh Achmad how hard it is to be a resident of Nablus and want to visit a brother. He knows to say in Hebrew “I miss my brother.” There is the possibility that he will see him today on the same side of the wall. The only thing we could do was to show sympathy, to offer him knafa which we got from a taxi driver and to try to follow what happens with him.All the rest is routine. Women are not checked but men are according to the whim of the changing soldiers.
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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Bidiya
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Bidiya
A town in the Salfit district, north of Highway 5, with about 10,000 residents. From 1967 until the paving of the Trans-Samaria Highway, which bypasses the village, and the construction of the separation barrier, many Israelis used to shop in the village and commerce flourished. The settlements of Barkan and Kiryat Netafim were built on lands expropriated from Bidia. 85% of Bidiya's lands are in Area C, and building on them is denied. Part of these land has been declared state land.
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