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Beit Iba, Mon 1.12.08, Morning

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Ronny S., Osnat R. (reporting) Translator: Charles K.
Dec-01-2008
| Morning

7:35  Jit junction

No checkpoint

 

7:55  Beit Iba

Drivers complained of very long lines at Anabta all morning.

It's quiet at Beit Iba.  There are no long lines of
vehicles, and not much traffic.  Perhaps because vehicles entering Nablus
still need permits, even though you can go to Nablus via A-Sira, for example,
without a permit. 

Many people entering Nablus on foot, mostly students. 
No inspections.

At the exit, as usual, rigourous inspections, people are
asked to remove belts, remove things from their pockets and bags.  Sad and
unnecessary.

  • 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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