Beit Iba & Shave Shomron
Beit Iba & Shave Shomron, Tuesday 27.6.06 AMObservers: Maya M, Elinoar B (reporting) 07:30-09:15 Beit Iba – in comparison to Anabta (see separate report) here things are quieter. No screams and insults today, and no queues are forming. A checkpoint is a checkpoint is a checkpoint, but the atrocity here is lower by a few degrees. Men 18-25 still cannot exit Nablus – this unbelievable decree has been going on for months now. Another absurdity: one of the schoolbus-drivers from Jubara shows us his permit to drive his bus in the area, including Nablus. But here is a catch: only some of the drivers are allowed to drive a bus into Nablus, whereas all the Tanib busses can be driven into the city. This means a driver enters the city as a passenger, and takes back the wheel only upon exit. Obviously this has nothing to do with security, just with cruelty and stupidity. Shave Shomron The soldier on the lookout tower spots our flag, cocks his gun and starts screaming at us: “you are trespassing on my post (not true)” and “Get out of here!” We do.
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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