Beit Iba & Sarra
Beit Iba & Sarra, Tuesday, 10.1.06, AM.Observers: Shlomit S, Ruti C, Maya M, Elinoar B (reporting)07:00-09:30 Eid al Adha (The Feast of the Sacrifice) – the roads are as deserted as on Yom Kippur. No roadblocks on the way to Beit Iba. The checkpoint itself is also deserted. A group of men is waiting for a taxi to pick them up to go to Tulkarm. They say that they are allowed to go there. A little later we find that the notorious “separation” is alive and kicking, and people from Nablus and Jenin are sent to Al Badhan to make the cruel and incomprehensible detour – 50 km instead of 5. We decide to go and see what is going on on the roads. We encounter a roadblock on road 60, a little further south than its usual location. The army vehicle is a tank, no less. Only one car is waiting, and we proceed to Sarra. Nobody there. We go back to Beit Iba. The checkpoint is still rather deserted. At this time, at least, unlike last year, very few people bother to travel under these impossible conditions to visit friends and family.
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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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Sarra
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Sarra
The checkpoint is installed between the Palestinian village of Sera and the district city of Nablus,
Since 2011, internal barriers Located among the West Bank Israeli settlements have somehow allowed, Palestinian residents to travel and move and reach various Palestinian cities.
After the terrible massacre by the Hammas on October 7 upon Israelis in the communities around Gaza, internal checkpoints manned by the army were installed to prevent free passage for Palestinians.
Many restrictions were imposed on the Palestinians in the West Bank. The prevention of movement shuttered the possibility of making a living in Israel. The number of Palestinian attacks by Israeli extremist settlelers increased along with the radicalization of the army against the Palestinians.
The conduct at the Sera checkpoint is one of the manifestations of the restrictions on all aspects of the Palestinians' lives.
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