Beit Iba, Mon 26.5.08, Afternoon
15:40
Even fewer vehicles than on our previous shift. The porters' wagons are moving again, and are carefully inspected. No detainees. No dogs. There is vacation at the University and only a few students return from exams.
There is a patrol of officers in the area. Probably because of an upcoming change in units. The checkpoint commander asks us to move back, "But within the shade…"
Contrary to custom, those entering Nablus are inspected today against a list (not physically). They complain that in the last days the checkpoint has opened late and they don't get to work in the Sharon region on time. T., the DCO representative, promised to check.
At the vehicles' entrance, in the direction of Nablus, they go through one by one, but without pressure. A bus with children goes through without inspection at all.
16:38
We left.
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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