Beit Iba & Shavei Shomron
Beit Iba & Shavei Shomron, Tuesday, 27.9.05, AMObservers: Shlomit S, Ruti C, Maya M, Maya S, Elinoar B (reporting)The vehicle line is endless, and seems not to be moving at all. Flying dust everywhere. Three truck drivers drink coffee in the cafe, Their trucks are just sitting there. Bus drivers say they’ve been waiting for more than an hour. Most busses are empty, the passengers prefer to pass by foot. A full bus takes about ten minutes to check when it eventually reaches the checkpoint. The checkpoint commander says, “This is it. Nothing can be done”. As we stand there debating whom to call, things start moving suddenly. The arbitrariness of it all. The checkpoint itself is run fairly efficiently.Near Shavei Shomron, still a Restricted Military Area, we meet a UN car with people on their way to Jenin to conduct a library workshop there. After a long wait the soldiers signal them from afar that they can pass. Same with people from some kind of a voluntary peace organization from Jerusalem, one German man and two Palestinian women.
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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Jerusalem
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The places in East Jerusalem which are visited routinely by MachsomWatch women are Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah. During the month of Ramadan, also the Old City and its environs are monitored.
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