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Beit Iba, Mon 12.5.08, Afternoon
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Beit Iba
Observers: Elisheva E., Bilha A. Tamara H (reporting) Translation: Galia S.
The driver: Hamdan, Nadim's son
Beit Iba
15:30 – The checkpoint is empty. Once in a while a car crosses without delays. Very few pedestrians. One of the reservists welcomes us, pointing at the cold water container suggesting that we drink as much as we want.
For lack of work we leave at 16:00 and go to Amgad's café, where we are granted a tour of the "ranch" and see some special pedigree goats, a beautiful rooster and horses with a new-born foal, smell included.
We return to our transportation full of the day's impressions.
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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