Beit Iba & roadblocks
Beit Iba & roadblocks, Tuesday 23.5.06 AMObservers: Ruti C, Shlomit S, Elinoar (reporting) .07:30 -09:30 No roadblock on 57/60, nor further down by the Delek gas-station.Jit (09:25) – only vehicles arriving from the east are being checked, at this time there are only 2 of them. On our way back to Anabta (09:30) we encounter a rolling checkpoint, just dismantling as we approach it. The so-called alleviations are due to the fact that there are no hot alerts, we are told by soldiers at Anabta. Beit Iba 07:30-09:15 – no alleviations here, on the contrary: 15-30-year-olds cannot exit Nablus, now including women as well. When we arrive the lines are long, the checking-out very thorough and excruciatingly slow. One soldier checks, another just yells at the people. On the exit side contents of bags is taken out on the table and examined carefully. We ask the checkpoint commander Y [ossef] to hurry thing up, he does and soon the checkpoint is empty. A few taxi drivers are sent to the enclosure, as usual they crossed a forbidden virtual line. “This is not punishment,” says the soldier, “They are being checked”. As usual taxi drivers tell us horror stories about soldiers breaking car windows, “branding” young women with masking-tape on their hands at Anabta. We ask that they document such complaints: case, time, place, names etc. This way we can try and pass the complaints on.
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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