Beit Iba, Sun 1.6.08, Morning
Natanya translating.
8.30 Beit Iba.
There is little movement and men are checked randomly, women not at all. Two detainees and whose names appeared in the list and the soldiers are waiting for orders as to whether to free them or not.
We spoke to the DCO representative and he said that they have been there for half an hour. The wiper which blocked the entrance has been removed and there is just a stick which blocks it. The soldiers refuse to speak to us and the commander, a sergeant tries to send us off but we insist on standing there and he leaves it at that. We spoke to the captain of the DCO and he says that the soldiers are drilled before being sent to the checkpoints and are told not to speak to women of Machsomwatch and also says that the women attack them verbally and hurt their feelings.
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.
Neta EfroniJun-4-2014Beit-Iba checkpoint 22.04.04
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