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Beit Iba, Jit, Qalqiliya, Wed 2.7.08, Afternoon
Observers: Sarah F., Dalia G. Natanya translating.
. 14.15 Qalqiliya. No line of cars and the movement is steady but at the exit is a long line. A taxi driver complained that the soldier standing at the exit was to blame. Every car which goes over the marked line is sent back to the beginning of the queue. We went to see but when we got there the traffic was moving at the rate of half a minute a car. We went on to Beit Iba. Jit was not manned
army unit in Hawarra. Tomer said he was being taken because of the last numbers of his ID and maybe that was so. Pedestrians pass quickly. Two turnstiles at work and the shed is almost empty and also the humanitarian line. The soldiers are pleasant. A bus arrives at the checkpoint. 2 soldiers get in and then it is sent on its way. A boy of about 9 comes to the humanitarian line as he wants to go to his uncle who lives not far away but because he has no adult with him he is sent back to Nablus.
15.45 The jeep comes to take the detainee who is handcuffed and blindfolded although up to now this has not been so…,but to take him by jeep this is done. We leave for 'Anabta.
Beit Iba
. No line of cars at the entrance. One detainee waiting for a police jeep which was to take him to thearmy unit in Hawarra. Tomer said he was being taken because of the last numbers of his ID and maybe that was so. Pedestrians pass quickly. Two turnstiles at work and the shed is almost empty and also the humanitarian line. The soldiers are pleasant. A bus arrives at the checkpoint. 2 soldiers get in and then it is sent on its way. A boy of about 9 comes to the humanitarian line as he wants to go to his uncle who lives not far away but because he has no adult with him he is sent back to Nablus.
15.45 The jeep comes to take the detainee who is handcuffed and blindfolded although up to now this has not been so…,but to take him by jeep this is done. We leave for 'Anabta.
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.
Neta EfroniJun-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.
Yehudith LevinMay-14-201414.05.14 Jit junction צומת ג'ית
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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.Karin LindnerMay-14-2014Etz Ephraim settlement. Nurit overlooks Siniriya
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