Beit Iba, Anabta
Beit Iba, Anabta, Tuesday 17.7.2007, afternoon Observers; Fatchia A. Rachel A. (reporting)Natanya translating.Anabta- 14.10 No people or cars and we did not stop to ask and later it turned out that the problem was the invasion into Chomesh. 16.00 Cars on both sides and the soldiers are changing the shift and there is a conversation with the commander and only after a long interval do things begin to move again with little checking. Beit Iba- 14.20 Hardly any cars and people, few taxis. Some people are trying to leave Nablus but the checkpoint is closed because of the decision to go up to Chomesh. Since 9am with no notice about when this will end. All the way to Beit Iba we saw police and soldiers at every crossroad. Soldiers at the checkpoint were waiting for orders concerning the rest of the day and in the meantime Palestinians were waiting to see if something would change. Later they received orders to let people from Dir Sharif and Cafin leave Nablus. The administrator of the quarry from the Cafin side wants to exit Nablus to go to the quarry which is at the checkpoint but his pleas fall on deaf ears. Until 4.00 nothing changed and there were no people. It seems that already yesterday they were informed by the radio about this. On the way back a Hummer at Dir Sharif stopped us to say that they road was closed and we were not allowed to continue. Eventually the commander let us pass on the condition that we did not go to Chomesh, Has anyone heard of any action there. I found nothing in the paper or through the media. The soldiers at Beit Iba knew that something was happened but no details.
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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