Beit Iba, Qalqiliya, Shave Shomron, Wed 25.2.09, Afternoon
14:50 The new checkpoint on the road next to Shave Shomron and Deir Sharaf, that was dismantled. A photo is attached (I hope it goes through).
14:55 Shave Shomron. Traffic flows freely without inspections. A soldier comes over to Tami, and with a big smile starts a conversation. Someone immediately calls, “Daniel!” – the commander’s voice, who tells the soldier not to talk to us. The soldier replies, apologetically, “I just wanted to say a simple ‘hello’…” Tami tells him (also simply) “Goodbye.”
15:15 Beit Iba. About 10 cars at the entrance; they go through without inspection.
Ten cars also at the exit; inspection mostly of the drivers’ ID’s.
The pedestrian checkpoint: About ten people in the shed for those leaving the city. Pretty empty. But the inspection is rigorous, as usual. Almost no one is entering, for some reason. It is completely empty.
The humanitarian lane is filled up, crowded. The person inspecting does his job extremely carefully.
The checkpoint commander lends a hand. Stands midway in the line, inspects cursorily and passes people through an adjacent lane.
15:40 The shed fills up a little, and another turnstile is opened immediately. The shed for the humanitarian lane is also full. Now the DCO representative comes over to help and move the line faster. The soldiers are new here, and the DCO representative helps them.
16:00 We leave, heading toward Anabta and Jabara.
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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Qalqiliya checkpoint
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Qalqilya is surrounded on all sides by the separation barrier. The only exit from the city is in the east of the city on the road that leaves the city in an easterly direction. This is where the checkpoint was located. When the checkpoint was active until 2009 our shifts watched long queues of cars being inspected at the only exit from the city to the West Bank. The checkpoint was canceled, but there is a military presence at the entrance to the city.
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Shave Shomron Checkpoint
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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
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