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Beit Iba, Shave Shomron, Mon 2.3.09, Morning

Observers: Nina S., Asnat R. (reporting)
Mar-02-2009
| Morning

07:25 – Shave Shomron

Soldiers occupy the checkpoint but do not inspect passing vehicles.

07:40 – Beit Iba

There is a line of vehicles going out of Nablus. This is a result of a clumsy procedure where the passenger's IDs are taken for inspection during which time the vehicle needs to wait and so does the whole  line.

They don't always encourage drivers to pass through the humanitarian inspection post that runs parallel to the regular line.

 The Magnometer whistles and often the reason is not clear.

In a few instances the checkpoint commander volunteered to inspect a person manually and allow him through. 

The female police officer screams when the instrument whistles.

A regular depressing day. Perhaps we're more upset by those going through inspection who are well trained and quickly remove whatever needs to be taken off and as a matter of fact go through as if all that is simply a normal nuisance.

  • 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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  • 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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