Beit Iba, Jit, Mon 27.10.08, Morning
08:50 Jit junction: No checkpoint
09:10 Beit Iba:
No lines.
People entering aren’t being checked.
A couple with a baby pass through the humanitarian lane. His ID number appears on the list, and he’s detained. His wife waits with the baby. The situation, of course, could have been worse. When Ziona asked the checkpoint commander to bring a chair for the woman, he did so immediately, and the DCO representative made numerous calls to speed up the ID check.
At 10:05 the couple was released.
A peddler with a cart loaded with sacks is asked to take some of them to make sure that nothing is hidden underneath, while a loaded truck goes through without being inspected.
A female MP yells (literally yells) at one of the people leaving Nablus.
People leaving Nablus are inspected strictly, they’re asked to open packages even if they passed through the magnemometer with no problems.
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.
Anat PolakJul-17-2025Yitzhar Road, Jit Junction: traffic jam
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