Beit Iba, J’at
Beit Iba, J’at, Thurs. PM, 22.06.06Observers: Aliza N., Yehudit L, Hagar L. (reporting)Restrictions on movement: Restriction on people of certain ages for residents of Nablus and the villages within the closure – no passage for men between 18-25.15:25, Beit Iba checkpointDozens of taxis waiting for passengers, but the passengers prefer the buses which are allowed to go in and out of Nablus now. Almost no line at either the entrance or exit. Sometimes there are 2 inspection stations, sometimes one. At the pedestrian checkpoint there is no line leaving Nablus, whoever arrives, goes through. Women and children and the elderly are not inspected at all. At the entance to Nablus, there is a line of workers returning from a week’s work in Israel or the Ramallah area. One detainee awaiting GSS inspection, dealt with by the checkpoint commander. He is released after one hour, wasn’t interested in talking with us.A private car with the sticker of medical-humanitarian personnel was not allowed to leave Nablus, since the driver and the vehicle did not have a transit permit. He is 44, so he is not within the age group denied passage, and he has identification as a physical therapist, but he doesn’t know what a physiotherapist is and it seems that he got the much desired papers, but they don’t really reflect the owner’s occupation. We decide not to intervene.The passage of vehicles and pedestrians at the Beit Iba checkpoint gets worse from week to week, and has become really scandalous. Pedestrians, mothers carrying babies, have to walk between trucks, taxis constantly manouvering to turn around; cars leaving Nablus have to go through a narrow lane bordered on one side by cars entering and on the other by parked cars, with pedestrians jumping around in between. In addition, barbed wire and sharp-toothed obstacles on the ground, which no one can see.16:15 – J’at JunctionNo soldiers! All lanes open.
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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