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Beit Iba & roadblock on 57/60

Place: Beit Iba
Observers: Shlomit S,Elinoar B
Apr-04-2006
| Morning

Beit Iba & roadblock on 57/60, Tuesday, 4.4.06, AMObservers: Shlomit S, Elinoar B (reporting)Guest: Mash60/57 intersection (aka “Shomron”)07:15 – Dozens of pedestrians crowd to be checked. Our car joins the long vehicle line (it will take us 35 minutes to pass). The waiting pedestrians left their taxis; it takes less time on foot. They mount a new one on the other side of the checkpoint. University professors on their way from Tulkarm to Nablus complain about the delay (a daily torture recently). They tell us that now they can exit through Beit Iba on their way home.For now, at least, they are not sent through the tortuous Al Badhan road. 08:30On our way back from Beit Iba the roadblock is still there but the line is much shorter now. Beit Iba07:15-08:30 – a pleasant respite: on our way from the parking area to the checkpoint we talk to a large group of psychology students, men and women, from A-Najah university in Nablus waiting for their bus to take them on a day-excursion to Bethlehem. They are all nicely dressed and very cheerful. for a deceptive moment life seems normal. Hopefully the hardships of the way didn’t dump their spirit. In the checkpoint itself pedestrian traffic is brisk. Everybody is checked vis-a-vis the lists, but the line moves fairly quickly. At 08:30 the most of the crowd is dispersed. An unexpected rain and unseasonable cold sent us back to the car.

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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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