Beit Iba, Mon 3.11.08, Afternoon
15:30 Much traffic on the road to the checkpoint, mostly trucks. No traffic jam at the checkpoint itself.
Porters go through with loaded carts.
Pedestrians going to Nablus are also being checked. The men are asked to show ID cards that are compared to a list of numbers. Women and children go through without being checked. From time to time there’s a wave of laborers returning home from a workday. The soldier in the booth checks ID cards and the contents of plastic bags and passes people through quickly. An MP sergeant walks among the booths and tells those going through to move back and wait for their turn beyond the red line painted on the wall.
A few young men leaving Nablus come through the turnstile holding their belts in their hands. Women with children go through the line off to the side, female students and elderly men. Their ID cards are also compared with a sheet of numbers held by the soldier.
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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