Beit Iba, Shave Shomron, Mon 15.9.08, Morning
Beit Iba Checkpoint
7.35 Very quiet. The silence is strange. When we arrived no cars exiting or entering. Later now and again at the exit there is a bus and the IDs of the passengers are checked, which stops the traffic. But because there are not many cars the delay is not long. At the pedestrian line those entering the city are not checked, but because the Palestinians do not know this they wait until a wave of the hand passes them through.
14.00 Waves of students arrive.There is one detainee, a taxi driver who, the commander says, interfered at the pedestrian crossing. The military policeman T. says he will be freed soon.
8.20 We leave.
We went to Shavei Shomron and saw that the traffic was flowing. Next to the blocked road to Naqura was a Hummer with soldiers watching the passage of cars on road 60. Two soldiers come out of the settlement to ask who we are and what we are doing here.
We go on to Anabta.
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.
Jun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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Shave Shomron Checkpoint
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The checkpoint is on Route 60 (the main road to the northern West Bank), opposite settlement. Has been blocked to Palestinians since disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.
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