Beit Iba, Jit, Shave Shomron, Thu 11.9.08, Morning
Beit Iba
07:15 – The Jit Junction is unmanned.
07:30 – Beit Iba Checkpoint
The checkpoint is almost empty. On the way in to Nablus no check is carried out, on the way out the usual procedure pertains – removing belts, hand luggage rummaged through and sometimes foot wear has to be shod.
A porter arriving from Nablus stops to allow the soldier a glimpse over his cart and proceeds.
A bus going into Nablus stops and for five minutes the identity cards of its passengers are examined. Pedestrians going in the same direction are not checked. A quarter of an hour later a lorry carrying a load of gas cylinders from Nablus crosses the checkpoint without being checked.
Around 08:00 the soldier decides to check the identifications of pedestrians going into Nablus but after two minutes stops and shuts the aperture of the position. At 08:15 we left.
08:25 – Shave Shomron Checkpoint is open allowing Israeli vehicles through as well.
At the turning from Beit Iba to Anabta a military jeep is parked.
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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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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Shave Shomron Checkpoint
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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
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