Beit Iba, Mon 25.2.08, Afternoon
. No special incidents but depression, humiliation and total despair.
15.30 Since the renovation of the checkpoint the whistle of the x-ray device has become part of the routine. About
50 people in line in two turnstiles less than usual. Later Amjad told us that many students who can afford to do so stay in Nablus with no restrictions.
Those who leave the checkpoint do so with their shoes untied and belts in the hands. The shed is an open dressing room which gives some shelter from the rain. Those who enter are dressed but wet from the rain which drips down from the shed. Yona asks why shoes are checked, if this is like the airport and is told that sometimes bullets have been found in shoes. Two detainees whom the DCO says have tried to slip through have been there 20 minutes. Yoni is in a good mood. About half an hour later he suggests that they free the young men. Where else do young men of 18-19 years of age have this power over people?
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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