Beit Iba, Mon 23.6.08, Afternoon
15:00 Immediately upon our arrival the checkpoint commander – Lt. Menashe – asks us vehemently to move away, leave the area and stand at his intersection and notifies us that he's calling the police – he gets the number from the sheet and in the same breath takes out the phone he was given by Women in Blue.
The line moves in a very orderly manner and efficiently.
There are two detainees.
One of the young men leaving Nablus comes out holding his belt in one hand and his phone and cards in the other, says something unclear and adds when he comes near us so we'll be sure to hear him – Only Hamas.
Tomer, the DCO representative, gives Yona a scholarly disquisition on the detainees and what their sins were.
We didn't see dog handlers today, and the line does move quickly – cars as well as people are handled quietly and efficiently.
From time to time the magnometer beeps, and the young men routinely come through near us holding their belts in their hands and their shoelaces untied, and continue on their daily business as if this all was normal.
We continued our shift until 16:00 and went on to Tzofin after talking with Naomi Lalo.
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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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