Beit Iba, Jit, Thu 15.5.08, Morning
8.30 Beit Iba. A long line of people waiting to enter Nablus and women also are carefully checked. The commander says that it seems there is a female suicide bomber. We drew the attention of the DCO representative to the situation and he saw to it that two lines were drawn up for men and for women. 2 taxi drivers were detained as they had entered the checkpoint area and half an hour later they were freed.
Jit 9.30 The checkpoint is not handled in a permanent fashion. The soldiers in a Hummer made a rolling checkpoint Sometimes they stopped a suspicious car to check the ID.
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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