Beit Iba, Mon 22.9.08, Morning
8:25 Beit Iba
A driver without permission to enter Nablus complains that he’s not even allowed to have the car checked, and has to drive a few kilometers just to enter on a road that has no checkpoint – nothing more than harassment.
Pedestrians entering Nablus aren’t checked. Much pedestrian traffic. Since most of the taxis don’t have entry permits, their passengers, even though they aren’t checked, have to get out, pass through the checkpoint on foot, and then take another taxi. Simple harassment.
A soldier yells from the tower at the taxi drivers, “Get the hell back, get the hell back. If you go over the line, we’ll throw you in the cesspit.” And everyone must listen to his obscenities.
The checkpoint operates normally, the soldiers do their job, lines don’t get too long, neither of vehicles nor of pedestrians coming out.
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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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