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Beit Iba, Mon 18.8.08, Afternoon

Place: Beit Iba
Tags: Detainees Punishment
Observers: Bilha A., Tamara H. (reporting) Guest:Ofra Translator: Charles K.
Aug-18-2008
| Afternoon

Beit Iba.

 

14:00  Lines are especially short – no more than 5 cars from each side; no dog handler today.

 

Detainees:  One who tried to sneak through and was caught, and a friend of his whose name appears on the list of ID numbers requiring checking.

 

The line goes quickly in all the lanes and in all directions.

 

After drinking our traditional cup of coffee, we left at 15:15.

 

  • 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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