Beit Iba
Beit Iba, Monday, 14.5.07, amObservers: Naomi L, Osnat R (reporting)08:55 – Jit junction, no checkpoint.09:05 – Beit Iba, no line of cars to enter Nablus. Coming out, as usual it is difficult to tell. A peddler coming out of Nablus, is required to open all his packages. After a while a sort of dialogue ensues with two Palestinians, even in Arabic. In the course of these two events, a line of vehicles outbound from Nablus waits, even though there are enough soldiers to carry on inspecting vehicles. True, the waiting time is only five minutes in any event such as this. They check IDs and cargo.There is no pedestrian line in either direction. At the exit from Nablus, a soldier stands with rifle pointed at the passers by, and checks bags, mostly of the men.At the entrance, women and older people are not checked. A lot of mistaken understandings on the part of passers by – when and to whom is it said that he may pass, because everything is by hand signals, and then shouts to go back.No detainees, no special restrictions.
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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