Beit Iba & roadblock
Beit Iba & roadblock, Tuesday 16.5.06 AMObservers: Ruti C, Maya M, Elinoar B (reporting) 07:15-09:15 The vehicle line is short. The restrictions are still on: men 15-30 are not allowed out of Nablus.”Do you know that last week 5 explosive charges were caught here, in this very checkpoint? It’s not that we treat them like shit,” says the checkpoint commander (usually fair) when he sees our unhappy faces.A 15-year-old accompanied by his father is not allowed out. “Clo-sure! Clo-sure!” says the soldier and lights a cigarette while talking. The entrance line moves quickly, women and elderly men pass without being checked out. On the exit side, though, there are hardly any women and everybody is told to take out things from their bags and parcels and dump them onto the table. A detainee in the enclosure tells us he was released from prison 2 weeks ago: no charges. If they should arrest him again, would we call his parents? The commander says he popped up “bingo” on the computer. Fortunately he’s released soon. A roadblock – the roadblock has indeed moved south, near the Delek gas station. At this time only 3 cars are waiting in line, but not to worry: a few minutes later they’ll arrive at Jit roadblock.
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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