Beit Iba, Jit, Mon 17.3.08, Morning
7.25 Jit crossroads ..no checkpoint.
Beit Iba
7.40 About 13 cars in either direction and it takes the 11th about 20 minutes to cross. The line of pedestrians entering is not long but all the IDs including women and the elderly are checked. A minibus with only women in it stops and their IDs are collected for checking and soldiers get in to the bus to check with the women still inside. The 10 cars at the exit take about 25 minutes to pass.
8.20 11 cars in either direction. Two detainees whom the commander says have tried to bypass the checkpoint. He allowed us to speak to them and they said that they came with an icecream wagon to Qusin and were detained and that they have been there since 6am and they do not know why nor have they been allowed to go to the toilet. Ronnie spoke to the commander who said he would deal with the problem but we did not see him doing anything. We turned to the DCO representative who went to speak to them and after an argument of about 10 minutes they are freed.Young men entering Nablus have to get out of the bus and go through the x-ray detectors.
9.00 We leave
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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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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