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Beit Iba, Sun 21.12.08, Morning
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Beit Iba
Observers: Yael A. Leah S. (reporting); Natanya translating.
7.45 Beit Iba.
The traffic passes at the checkpoint with hardly any search (from the direction of Tulkarm) and there are no delays. From the direction of Nablus the checking is careful. Those who pass take off belts and shoes for inspection. At this hour the students start to arrive from Tulkarm. The women students are not checked, the males show IDs. No line of cars.
The traffic passes at the checkpoint with hardly any search (from the direction of Tulkarm) and there are no delays. From the direction of Nablus the checking is careful. Those who pass take off belts and shoes for inspection. At this hour the students start to arrive from Tulkarm. The women students are not checked, the males show IDs. No line of cars.
8.15. We leave.
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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