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Beit Iba, Shave Shomron, Thu 26.2.09, Afternoon

Place: Beit Iba Shave Shomron Checkpoint
Observers: Didika Y., Michal S., Translator: Judith G.
Feb-26-2009
| Afternoon

 

Beit Iba 

15:35

Two inspection stations for vehicles are in operation;  about 20 vehicles standing in line.  Each vehicle waits for 12 minutes.  The waiting shed for pedestrians is almost empty.  The line on the side reaches almost to the end of the shed.  The soldier who is inspecting those going through here yells out every few minutes: "One by one!" and screams at those waiting to move backward.  The female soldier, who checks those going out, also screams at them rudely.  Didika alerted the checkpoint commander to the situation and he responded to her.

 

The soldiers look through the bags and bundles of everyone going through.  Men are forced to empty their pockets and take off their belts.

 

A female student arrives without an ID and is not allowed to go through and return home from the university.  She doesn't argue and, before I had a chance to speak with her, she goes back to Nablus.  As though it is to be taken for granted that you can't go home without an ID.

 

16:25

We leave.

 

16:35

There is inspection in both directions at the Shave Shomron checkpoint.  In the direction of Nablus, there is a line of 7 vehicles.

 

  • 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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