Beit Iba, Jit, Tue 15.1.08, Afternoon
15.20 Beit Iba. Great pressure and many people. The line at the magnometer is long. The DCO representative Tomer helps and checks. Those entering Nablus are not checked. People leave the turnstiles with their belts in their hands and shy smiles.
At the car lane there are workers guarded by a man from the civil security with his gun.
15.40 It is hard to see if there are detainees. One has to go up the stairs and today we were not chased away. There are 4 people who have been there for about 4 hours because they tried to bypass. One of them is known to us as a porter with a car but now he has been caught in the fields.
15.50 Two detainees are freed but we cannot see whom. We have to find a way to check up on detainees.16.10 The car lane is long and it is hard to see how many cars there are. Drivers say they waited 2 hours. 8 cars waiting to enter Nablus.The workers have finished and how it is possible to open a humanitarian line
We leave at 16.30 when there are less people.
17.00 Jit is open. At Shvut Ami there is a car with people around it,
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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